Origin and Properties of the Bow and Arrow

Here are a few good links I came across during an hour of surfing (partly searching in Wikipedia, partly in Google):

• "Bow and Arrow", Encyclopedia Britannica.
• From Wikipedia.org:
  • Bow (weapon)
  • English Longbow
  • Medieval Warfare
• Selected Archery Articles from Sagittarius Twente University Archery Club:
  • Turkish Flight Arrows Fred Isles, National Company of Crossbowmen of the U.S.A., 1961
  • The Medieval English Longbow, by Robert E. Kaiser, M.A., 1980
• Concerning the Archery of al-Islam, a document purporting to contrast English and Turkish bowmaking from a turkish point of view, written by an American SCA enthusiast in the 20th century, based on "Saracen Archery"
• History's Curve, by Lee Lawrence, 2003. Also mentions "Saracen Archery".
• A Note on Indian Bow Making, or, the Secrets of Sinew Revealed, by Dick Baugh
• Bow-arrow interaction in Archery, B.W. Kooi, Journal of Sports Sciences, 1998
• Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century by John Guilmartin. Mentions that the Turkish bow was mistakenly "traditionally derided by European historians as antiquated and 'obsolete'".

• Is it Real or is it Memex, Art Rhyno, 2003