In the beginning, there were self bows - bows made from a single piece of wood - longbows and the improved but still primitive recurve bows to sustain millennia of wild-animal-eating humans and their ...

The recurve bow, featuring limbs that curve away from the archer to increase power is the only type of bow allowed in Olympic competition. The lever effect created from a recurve bow can propel arrows ...

Today’s casual archery enthusiast may not realize it, but every time they nock an arrow, they’re taking part in a practice that once helped ensure mankind’s survival. The sport of archery started ages ...

Yuming A-von, an Aborigine from Taiwan's Atayal tribe. Image: AFP/Sam Yeh Yuming A-von, an Aborigine from Taiwan’s Atayal tribe. Image: AFP/Sam Yeh When aboriginal tribesman Yuming A-von got his first ...

It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it, and, to the uninitiated, it appears lopsided and unbalanced. There are no sights, no ...

Thirty archers armed with bamboo bows and arrows sit on a platform awaiting instruction. Then they take aim at a straw cylinder 60 feet away. They each have 34 arrows to shoot in four minutes. They ...

A British archery competition that has been running for more than 300 years has been cancelled for the first time since the 1940s because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Ancient Silver Arrow ...

Target archery is one of the oldest sports in the world. For the Third City Archers, there is no truer aim than to bring the ancient art of archery to the next generation. To accomplish that, the ...

When aboriginal tribesman Yuming A-von got his first taste of Taiwan's ancient archery tradition he was dismayed to see indigenous people using bows and arrows from other cultures. His own Atayal ...