FOSSILIZED NEANDERTHAL HUNTING BOW FOUND NEAR U.S. TERRITORIAL WATERS IS ADVANCED 'RECURVE' DESIGN. When artificially strung by PSR's computer, the petrified Neanderthal hunting bow (above, & Figs. 5-6) from Monterey Canyon suddenly evoked the familiar profile of recurve archery devices from much later recorded history. PSR's Chief Technology Officer and photographer, Mark Prandin: "It was never an easy task to affix a bowstring to this curious recurve style archery instrument. It always took strong arms to bend the recurve bow limbs way over in the opposite direction of their natural unstrung positions. And then you had to hold them there with one hand, against tremendous resistance. While your free hand secured the string to the unstrung end. Not so easy to do, let alone fifty thousand years ago. Notwithstanding any special gadgets nor teamwork Neanderthals and/or Homo sapiens might have employed to help them do it." (NOTE: The ENTIRE article describing the history making Monterey Canyon Neanderthal discovery can be read or downloaded via the LINK at the Profile page herein. All photos and captions in this Library were excerpted from the original American Neanderthal report at SUBMARINE ARCHAEOLOGY TIMES.)