Traditional composite bows are normally not included, although their construction with horn, wood, and sinew might bring them within the above definition.
The Egyptians, Scythians and Assyrians had been making laminate bows out of combinations of wood, horn and sinew as early as the 2nd millennium BCE.
[1] It was constructed by laminating several fine strips of willow and alder wood, bound with fish glue and wrapped in birch bark.
[2] In 2006, an international expedition to the Altai Mountains region in western Mongolia uncovered a laminate bow, associated with the Scythian Pazyryk culture.
It was made in the Pelly Bay area of Nunavut, Canada, and consists of three shims of bone laminated near the handle region, and reinforced at the joints with rawhide.