Otzi carried 14 arrows in his quiver, but only two had arrowheads and feather fletching. Photo courtesy of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/H. Wisthaler Ötzi the Iceman never had a chance to take ...

To get the desired effect of an arrow – something pointy stuck into someone that you don’t like – all you need is a pointed stick and something to launch it. So what are all those feathers doing on ...