History of thumbring
How long archers have been use thumbring?
I have debate with "expert", and he think, 3 fingers is older style than thumbring.
He even argue that thumbring is youngest release style. :shock:
I recall ancient egytpians used thumbring?
I think thumbring is one of the oldest style?
I have debate with "expert", and he think, 3 fingers is older style than thumbring.
He even argue that thumbring is youngest release style. :shock:
I recall ancient egytpians used thumbring?
I think thumbring is one of the oldest style?
Archery goes back thousands of years before the first evidence for thumb rings. But it is also not necessary to use a ring to draw with the thumb. For instance, some use a leather protector for the thumb. This would, in most cases, be archaeologically invisible.
So perhaps you should rephrase your question to your expert.
So perhaps you should rephrase your question to your expert.
For whatever it's worth, the main hypothesis from academic literature is that the pinch draw is the oldest draw (not thumb, not 3-finger). The oldest thumb ring I'm aware of was excavated from the Shang dynasty tomb of Fu Hao (1200 BC) in China: http://www.atarn.org/chinese/thumbrings ... _rings.htm
When your expert refers to thumb draw being youngest, perhaps he means that in several places the thumb draw eventually replaced whatever draw was used before. The thumb draw replaced the finger draw in Rome, Persia and India --- iirc, these are just a few examples where the success of invading archers caused the local people to adopt the thumb draw.
When your expert refers to thumb draw being youngest, perhaps he means that in several places the thumb draw eventually replaced whatever draw was used before. The thumb draw replaced the finger draw in Rome, Persia and India --- iirc, these are just a few examples where the success of invading archers caused the local people to adopt the thumb draw.
Morse thought that drawing styles went through several phases, hence he called some Primary, Secondary and Tertiary releases. However, he believed the Mediterranean and the Mongolian styles to be more sophisticated and therefore later developments.
There is more evidence for early Mediterranean draws than for thumb draws. Early Dynastic Egyptian bas-reliefs even show different varieties of the three finger draw. When I wrote up my study on early archer's rings I found that many of the identifications of thumb draw archery in the West (including the Middle East) were imaginary or the result of preconceptions. A famous French archaeologist made several statements that went into the background literature that were eventually disproved.
There is more evidence for early Mediterranean draws than for thumb draws. Early Dynastic Egyptian bas-reliefs even show different varieties of the three finger draw. When I wrote up my study on early archer's rings I found that many of the identifications of thumb draw archery in the West (including the Middle East) were imaginary or the result of preconceptions. A famous French archaeologist made several statements that went into the background literature that were eventually disproved.