<P> The earliest known ballistic projectiles were stones and spears, and the throwing stick . </P> <P> The oldest evidence of stone - tipped projectiles, which may or may not have been propelled by a bow (c.f. atlatl), dating to c. 64,000 years ago, were found in Sibudu Cave, present day - South Africa . The oldest evidence of the use of bows to shoot arrows dates to about 10,000 years ago; it is based on pinewood arrows found in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg . They had shallow grooves on the base, indicating that they were shot from a bow . The oldest bow so far recovered is about 8,000 years old, found in the Holmegård swamp in Denmark . </P> <P> Archery seems to have arrived in the Americas with the Arctic small tool tradition, about 4,500 years ago . </P> <P> The first devices identified as guns appeared in China around 1000 AD, and by the 12th century the technology was spreading through the rest of Asia, and into Europe by the 13th century . </P>

Which of the following is an example of a ballistic movement