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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Or that they're holding the bow drawn for a long period of time, waiting for the order to "fire".

Long bows averaged a 200lb draw weight. Try holding that for 5 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Archers of the day:

[–] bjorney 149 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Literally - you can pick out English longbowman bodies from the shape of their skeletons

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now I'm imagining a swole skeleton with buff bones

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's mostly their twisted spine, as far as I'm aware.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

You just have to ruin everything, don't you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I believe there are spurs to one side and right sided increases in density. But that article was a decade ago.

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