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   >> likely wasn't any tech that came across the Bearing straits.   
   >   
   > The show seems to consistently make strong claims based on scant   
   > evidence, without presenting opposing views. How do you tell arrowheads   
   > from atlatl-dart points? Can we even say there's a single origin of bows?   
   >   
   I do not think that the bow was needed.  It would have been useful in   
   the jungle and was likely used in the Amazon, but the evidence indicates   
   that the bow and arrow tech became available the same time that the last   
   waves of migrants were going to North America.  Evidence indicates that   
   it didn't spread south from the Arctic until around 8,000 years ago.  So   
   the first waves of migrants did not have bows and arrows.  No one finds   
   arrow heads with Clovis points.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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