Around 1,400 years ago, something dramatic unfolded across western North America. Indigenous hunters from present-day northern Mexico to the Canadian Yukon encountered the bow and arrow at roughly the ...

By dating 136 preserved organic weapons, researchers have now estimated the bow and arrow arrived in North America about ...

Learn how ancient weapons show when the bow and arrow replaced the atlatl, and why the transition played out differently across western North America. Hunters across western North America relied on ...

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by the ice mummy Ötzi by more than two millennia, shedding new light on ...

Post-election clashes between tribes re-awakened ancient ethnic rivalries. They are settling scores the old-fashioned way, with centuries-old weapons that can have deadly results. A Kikuyu girl stands ...

Listeners respond to an interview with former CIA director George Tenet, reporting on gas prices in the U.S. and abroad, and a feature on "ancient" bows and arrows.