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Dec 16^th, 2005 at 3:09pm

In today's New York Times International Section---there is a lengthy article regarding a war fought about 5,500 years ago. The site known as Tel Hamoukar---close to modern day Southern Turkey. -----" The archeologists reported finding collapsed mud-brick walls that had undergone heavy bombardment and ensuing fire. All around they collected more than 1200 oval-shaped "bullets" used with slings and some 120 larger round clay balls------If the Uruk people weren't the ones firing the sling bullets, they certainly benfited from------". Of course the article goes on from here, and a picture is included showing these larger clay balls. I guess that's a clue to use and fire clay rounders instead of casting lead or looking for small enough rock. FYI Roll Eyes

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AjlouniBoy Descens Offline Sling smarter, not harder! Posts: 122 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2005 at 5:17pm Excellent heads up on the article and good input on ammo. Fire 'em up. Thanks, AjlouniBoy
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Matthias Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1418 Gatineau/Ottawa QC, Canada Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2005 at 5:24pm Great info Ishii! Welcome to slinging.org. The article referred can be accessed at the NY Times website: Archaeologists Unearth a War Zone 5,500 Years Old Matthias
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #3 - Dec 18^th, 2005 at 12:17am Great article Ishii. Thank you and welcome.
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BrianG Tiro Offline Just Slinging in the Rain Posts: 19 Ontario, Canada Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #4 - Dec 29^th, 2005 at 3:52pm If you have not seen this, here is the University of Chicage News Office release on this story: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/051216.hamoukar.shtml ; There are some nice pictures here: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/051216.hamoukar-photos.shtml Cheers - Brian.
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CanDo Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1652 New England, USA Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #5 - Mar 19^th, 2006 at 11:33pm Very interesting stuff in the Times. That's a really cool site Brian. Discovery magazine published a short article about finding clay glandes or as they say "bullets" in Mesopotamia, in their march 2006 issue. How effective is clay relative to lead or rocks anyway??
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SlingWolf Senior Member Offline Guns dont kill people... Magic missles do! Posts: 362 Kenmore, NY Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #6 - Mar 20^th, 2006 at 7:46am I'm not sure but i know they aren't too kind to a window SlingWolf
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Reply #7 - Mar 20^th, 2006 at 3:40pm

Why don't they make durable windows so this wouldn't happen?
Rocks and clay I think would be about the same. Clay is a bit lighter, but can be formed into the perfect shapes. Now lead is the best. Dense, so there is least air resistance but still massive. And it can be imprinted with snappy insults, thus defeating the morale of an enemy army

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CanDo Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1652 New England, USA Gender:	Re: N. E. Syria Reply #8 - Mar 21^st, 2006 at 12:49am haha, the soldier fishes the lead glande out of his liver then his morale is crushed by the insult. good strategy.
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