In 1926, at Folsom, New Mexico, the late Dr. J. D. Figginsdiscovered the fossil of two ribs of an extinct buffalo with anarrow point embedded in the matrix. This fossil is now in themuseum of natural history at Denver. Since then other findshave been made in this geological deposit that clear up any andall doubt that Folsom man roamed our Southwest during thelatter part of the last ice age which scientists have placed ataround 25,000 years ago. These arrow points would indicatethat Folsom man was armed with the bow.
The whole western hemisphere, from the Aleutian Islandsto Patagonia, is strewn with arrow points—unmistakable evi-dence of a hemisphere wide use of the bow. Excepting onlythe aboriginal Australian tribes, all known peoples of earth,at some period of their progress, used the bow. For thousandsupon thousands of years man has had to look to the bow forsecuring food, for protecting his hearth and fighting his count-less wars!
