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Contents 1 Quick Links 2 Suggested Section Content 3 About Our Wiki 4 Slinging Books In Translation 5 Outline 5.1 Miscellaneous 5.1.1 Anatomy of The Sling 5.1.2 Casting Styles 5.1.3 Ammunition 5.1.4 Specialized Ammunition 5.2 Physics of The Sling (and Projectiles) 5.3 Sling-Related Weapons 5.4 Pre-Historic Period 5.5 Historic Period 5.5.1 Europe 5.5.2 Asia 5.5.3 The Americas 5.5.4 Pacific Islands (Oceania) 5.6 Modern Period

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• Forum Home
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Suggested Section Content

• What context the sling was used in (military, hunting, herding?)
• How were the slings made? Material? Made by whom? Length? Pouch type? etc…
• What other projectile weapons were being used and how did they compare?
• Review of notable physical evidence from this era. (slings? Projectiles? Art?)
• Review of notable written evidence from this era.
• Notable military actions with slingers.

About Our Wiki

Please visit the Project Goliath sub forum at Slinging.org for discussion and more info about this project. Users are encouraged to sign any edits with their Slinging.org username (to be removed on reduction of page), and post notification of any major additions to the forum. Please create a login here, using the same info as your forum account.

To practice using and editing this document, please visit the sandbox

--Matthias 21:08, 20 January 2006 (EST)

Slinging Books In Translation

Vicente from the Federacio Balear de Tir de Fona and the author have graciously allowed us to host a copy of L'Art de la Bassetia - Aprenentatge i ensenyança del tir de fona, an introductory instruction manual for slingers. The book is written in Catalan. I encourage members with an interest in languages, knowledge of Catalan, Spanish or Portugese, or lots of time and some web-based translation tools to come take a look at the book and help produce an english copy. Matthias 16:56, 19 May 2006 (EDT)

Our very own Jesús Vega Hernández (Hondero) has written Historia de la Honda - "The History of the Sling" in Spanish, and has agreed to let us translate and host a copy in English. We'll be working through this one chapeter by chapter. Once one section is finished and approved, we'll move on to the next. Hondero has published the book in pdf format on his webpage - http://perso.wanadoo.es/hondero/historia.htm

Learning and Teaching of the Shooting of the Sling by Marti Pons Gomila

Main staging ground is here.

Outline

Here is an overall outline. I've included some bullet points that I think are important.

Feel free to add/remove sections. Also, please start adding stuff to these sections!! Anyone can make changes or add new text!

• Preface

Miscellaneous

• Sling in Different Languages

Anatomy of The Sling

• Different Types of Slings
• Famous Historical Slings
• Methods of making Slings (Modern and Historical)

Casting Styles

Ammunition

Specialized Ammunition

Physics of The Sling (and Projectiles)

• Magnus Effect
• Bernoulli's Principle
• Form Drag
• Viscosity

Sling-Related Weapons

• Bolas
• Cestrosphendon
• Staff-sling
• Trebuchet
• Onager

Pre-Historic Period

• Paleolithic, Neolithic. General origins of the sling.
  • Where did the sling develop?
  • What was the sling used for?
  • What other projectile weapons were being used and how did they compare.
  • Earliest evidence of use.
• Bronze Age
  • Sumerian (Mesopotamia) (3200–2360 BC)
  • Egypt (2850–715 BC)
  • Minoan & Mycenean (3000–1100 BC)
  • Indus Valley (3000–1500 BC)
  • Akkadian (2350–2230 BC)
  • Assyrian (1800–889 BC)
  • Babylonian I (1728–1686 BC)
  • Hittite (1640–1200 BC)
  • Hebrew (1000-740 BC)
• Iron Age
  • Mede (835–550 BC)
  • Phoenician (1100–332 BC)
  • Scythian (800–300 BC)
  • Phrygian (1000–547 BC)
  • Persian (559–330 BC)
  • Babylonian II (625–539 BC)
  • Cimmerian (750–500 BC)
  • Lydian (700–547 BC)
  • Etruscan (900–396 BC)
  • Olmec (1200-1000BC)
  • Greek (900–200 BC)
  • Britian

Historic Period

Europe

• The Rise of Rome
  • The Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands
  • The Celtic World (500BC - 300AD)
  • Roman Empire (500 BC - 300 AD)
  • The Barbarian Tribes (200-400 AD)
• Post Roman Times
  • Byzantine Empire (500- 1453 AD)
  • Anglo-Saxons (400-900 AD)
  • Vikings (780-1100AD)
  • Normans (1000-1400)

Asia

• Mongol Empire (220 BC - 1360 AD)

The Americas

• The Mayas (1000BC–1500 AD)
• Aztec Empire (1400-1519 AD)
• Inca Empire (1438-1538 AD)

Pacific Islands (Oceania)

• Micronesia
• Melanesia
• Polynesia

Modern Period

• Renaissance (14th cen – 16th cen)
• Enlightenment (16th cen - 1790)
• Modern Time
  • Spanish Civil war
  • Balearic Traditions
  • Other nations' Traditions (pacific islands?)
  • World War I (II?)
  • Palestine

• References

• Index

• Credits and Contributers

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