Retreating ice in the Swiss Alps has yielded an extraordinary discovery: a collection of perfectly preserved archery equipment dating back to the Middle Bronze Age. The find includes yew-wood bows, arrows tipped with flint, and a unique leather-stitched quiver with intact binding and decorative fringes.
This discovery offers unprecedented insight into the high-altitude hunting strategies and organic technology used by Alpine communities during a period of significant prehistoric warming. Archaeologists emphasized that the preservation of such delicate organic materials as leather and sinew is only possible due to the constant frozen state of the glacier, which is now rapidly disappearing due to modern climate change.