An Archaeological Experiment to Reconstruct a Compound Bow

Ivan Semyan (1) and Spyros Bakas (2, 3) 1 South Ural State University / Archaeos: experimental archaeology association (Russia) 2 University of Warsaw (Poland) 3 Koryvantes: association of historical studies (Greece) ...of the Sintashta Culture Stepnoe Burial Ground In 2019 an international experimental study began on the reconstruction of the “compound” bow of the Sintashta culture of the Bronze Age (South Ural, Russia). The project is carried out by a collective of researchers from Greece and Russia as part of the grant program of the world association of experimental archaeology EXARC - “Twinning program”.The high role of long-range weapons in the life of the Sintashta society has been repeatedly noted by researchers, but the weapon production process, as well as the problems of the evolution of warfare, are poorly known for the Ural Bronze Age. A complex of horn parts from barrow 4, pit 13 of the Stepnoe burial ground (Chelyabinsk region) was chosen as the object for the reconstruct