Pikåru
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I am still fascinated by the history of the sling. In Guam, the sling was important to the Chamorro people. The official seal of the island is in the shape of a sling stone. If the Chamorro people are of Austronesian descent (southeast asia) and came to what is now Micronesia around 4000BC, did they develop the technology after they arrived, independent of any other culture or did they bring the technology with them? If they brought the technology with them, couldn't it stand to reason that the technonolgy was well in use in many parts of the world by many cultures like southeast asian cultures before 4000BC and long before projectiles found dating to 3500BC? Consider the use of slings throught the Americas. Cultures here developed totally independent of those areas where historical evidence has been discovered like in the middle east. It seems to me that the technology of the sling was developed at a common time, long, long ago, when the human population was much smaller, then spread out as the people spread out. Asian, European, African, American, Islander cultures all used slings.
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