In a hilly stratum with an area of 65,438+0,000 square meters where Zhiyu River and Koizumi River, tributaries of Sanggan River, Shanxi Province, China, archaeologists found a piece of occipital bone fragment named Zhiyu Man and a number of cultural relics. Among them, there is a finely processed small stone arrow, which is made of very thin feldspar pieces and has a very sharp tip. The edges on both sides of the body are not very sharp. This kind of stone arrow obviously conforms to the three elements of the arrow: sharp, medium sharp and geometric shape. These three points can be explained as arrows. At the other end (bottom) opposite to the tip, a little concave left and right becomes a small handle, which is obviously used to install the arrow shaft. It can be inferred from these two points that Homo sapiens used stone bows and arrows. Although this stone arrow looks unsightly today, no bow and arrow earlier than it has been found so far. From this, we can claim that the earliest bow and arrow in human history was made by our ancestors in China 28,000 years ago.
Before the bow and arrow appeared, the tools used by human beings were relatively simple. Bow and arrow is a composite tool, and its appearance is a sign of remarkable progress in primitive society technology. Long range, high hit rate, easy to carry, greatly strengthening the power of human struggle with nature.