The Welsh Viking | Are Flintlock Muskets Better Than Medieval Longbows? A Response to @BrandonF AND @shadiversity @TheWelshViking | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
Ah, the old argument is back! Are muskets better than longbows? If the longbow was the AK-47 of the Medieval period, why did people stop using them? If early guns and cannon were so slow and inaccurate, why did they take over from archers and crossbowmen?
Let's take a little look at the archaeological and skeletal side of this argument. A part of it that both @shadiversity and @BrandonF certainly mention in their videos, but the side I think I want to concentrate on a little more because I like skeletons and the weird things that lifting heavy weights, shooting arrows, and fighting in medieval battles can do to them.
I hope you enjoy it!
And if you don't, please don't climb the walls of Chester with a longbow so you can legally shoot me after dark. It's definitely still murder...
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Some reading:
bowvsmusket.com/2015/07/14/barnabe-rich-a-right-exelent-and-pleasaunt-dialouge-1574
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1901.3.3.02a00070
archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/meet-the-mary-rose-archer.htm
Ah, the old argument is back! Are muskets better than longbows? If the longbow was the AK-47 of the Medieval period, why did people stop using them? If early guns and cannon were so slow and inaccurate, why did they take over from archers and crossbowmen?
Let's take a little look at the archaeological and skeletal side of this argument. A part of it that both @shadiversity and @BrandonF certainly mention in their videos, but the side I think I want to concentrate on a little more because I like skeletons and the weird things that lifting heavy weights, shooting arrows, and fighting in medieval battles can do to them.
I hope you enjoy it!
And if you don't, please don't climb the walls of Chester with a longbow so you can legally shoot me after dark. It's definitely still murder...
Find me elsewhere:
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
welshviking.com
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Twitter: @jimmysid6h
Letters, parcels, packages?
The Welsh Viking,
PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY
Business and collaboration (sorry, I won't read anything else): thewelshviking1 at gmail dot com
Some reading:
bowvsmusket.com/2015/07/14/barnabe-rich-a-right-exelent-and-pleasaunt-dialouge-1574
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1901.3.3.02a00070
archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/meet-the-mary-rose-archer.htm
