Sixteen years ago, I took up Kyudo, the Japanese art of archery. Some know it as Zen archery because of its slow, meditative quality, and in fact I learned it in a Zen monastery, where I still go ...

tudies have confirmed the earliest evidence of archery dates back 64,000 years ago with the finding of quartz arrowheads in Sidubu Cave, present-day South Africa. Since then, bows and arrows have ...