Paper on The Mongols
I'm Taking a Military history class and my teacher asked me to write a paper on Bows ...I agreed under the assumption he meant Medieval style long bows ect.., Later he specified Archers of the Asiatic step, specifically Mongols an area where my knowledge is very limited.. I'm not totally ignorant but...
anyway I was wondering if anyone could direct me to any helpful websites
anyway I was wondering if anyone could direct me to any helpful websites
You could try an obscure site that specializes in Asiatic type archery trivia, ATARN. There is an actual Mongol bow, quiver and arrows published in the archive.
This is a very sly professor. He probably wants to know himself but has not researched. This is very hard info to find above the generic level. But all the info is here if you squeeze it out. Elsewhere you will find far more solid misinformation than actual facts. -j-
This is a very sly professor. He probably wants to know himself but has not researched. This is very hard info to find above the generic level. But all the info is here if you squeeze it out. Elsewhere you will find far more solid misinformation than actual facts. -j-
Peter
A couple of Yuan dynasty bows and a quiver of arrows have been described on ATARNet in the past. One can be found by looking in the ATARN Image Album and selecting the Yuan bow at the bottom of the list on the left. Another in the Xining museum is discussed here:
http://198.170.108.27/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=
You will find a few discussions on the bows if you search for Mongol or Yuan bows on ATARN.
There is a picture of a burial of a Mongol warrior, complete with bow and arrows in Heath, ?The Grey Goose Wing?. Unfortunately the photo is not very large.
"The Omnogov bow: The results of a search for the bow of Ghengis Khan" by Wayne Atex and G. Menes in the Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries, volume 38, 1995, pp. 71-75, describes a later find (1720+/-100AD) of the same type of bow.
A characteristic used by Russian archaeologists to identify these bows is a bone plate on the grip belly (usually all that if left as the rest of the bow rots away). These appear in the 10th century and continued in use in Siberia until the 18th. See example below of the grip of a Omnogov-style bow I am working on at the moment.
Andrew
A couple of Yuan dynasty bows and a quiver of arrows have been described on ATARNet in the past. One can be found by looking in the ATARN Image Album and selecting the Yuan bow at the bottom of the list on the left. Another in the Xining museum is discussed here:
http://198.170.108.27/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=
You will find a few discussions on the bows if you search for Mongol or Yuan bows on ATARN.
There is a picture of a burial of a Mongol warrior, complete with bow and arrows in Heath, ?The Grey Goose Wing?. Unfortunately the photo is not very large.
"The Omnogov bow: The results of a search for the bow of Ghengis Khan" by Wayne Atex and G. Menes in the Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries, volume 38, 1995, pp. 71-75, describes a later find (1720+/-100AD) of the same type of bow.
A characteristic used by Russian archaeologists to identify these bows is a bone plate on the grip belly (usually all that if left as the rest of the bow rots away). These appear in the 10th century and continued in use in Siberia until the 18th. See example below of the grip of a Omnogov-style bow I am working on at the moment.
Andrew
Andrew; thanks for the biblio. Does the horn abut the bone riser or is the bone overlaying the horn? -j-
Jack
They butt.
The Hunnic grip belly plates appear to have been overlaid by the horn at the ends, this probably continued in most of the Ancient Turkic derivatives from the 6th - 10th centuries (those that had grip belly plates). The first grip belly plate that butted the horn is probably the Kimek type from the 9th - 10th centuries that preceded the Mongolian type.
Andrew
They butt.
The Hunnic grip belly plates appear to have been overlaid by the horn at the ends, this probably continued in most of the Ancient Turkic derivatives from the 6th - 10th centuries (those that had grip belly plates). The first grip belly plate that butted the horn is probably the Kimek type from the 9th - 10th centuries that preceded the Mongolian type.
Andrew