The late middle ages bow from the Amur regional local history museum collection

Archaeological research of the Neolithic, Iron Age and Middle Ages sites in the Western Priamurie allowed to establish kinds of long-range projectile weapons, which the hunters and warriors used. For the Neolithic and the Early Iron Age there are stone, iron and more rarely bone arrowheads, the protective plates at archery. It was only in the Middle Ages when bone plates begin to appear on the bow, which allow us to make the reconstruction. The bow of Gantimur from Amur Museum, which dates back to the XVII century, not only allows us to submit a form with strained bowstring, but also to conduct without it, and a detailed study of its structure and stages of production. X-rays showed complicated structure of the bow with the use of different materials: wood, bone, leather, birch bark. The asymmetric shoulders with a tight bowstring form of the letter M, its dimensions have allowed to attribute bow to Mongolian type.