Editing Composite bow (section)

===Scythian bows, bending tips===
{{See also|Gorytos}}
[[File:Scythians shooting with bows Kertch antique Panticapeum Ukrainia 4th century BCE.jpg|thumb|[[Scythians]] shooting with bows, [[Panticapaeum]] (known today as [[Kerch]], Crimea), 4th century BCE]] Variants of the [[Scythians|Scythian]] bow were the dominant form in Asia until approximately the first century BCE. These were short weapons—one was {{convert|119|cm|in|abbr=in}} long when strung, with arrows perhaps {{convert|50|-|60|cm|in|abbr=in}} long—with flexible, "working" tips; the wooden core was continuous from the centre to the tip.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atarn.org/chinese/scythian_bows.htm |title=Scythian-style bows discovered in Xinjiang: From the photographs and drawings of Stephen Selby |first=Bede |last=Dwyer |date=19 March 2004 |access-date=7 June 2011 |archive-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518171656/http://atarn.org/chinese/scythian_bows.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>