Use of the Longbow in Ancient Europe?

[Sean Manning]

The bows from Nydam Mose were not longbows? I'm not saying they were, because I can't remember, just thinking.
There could be some information in H. Eckhardt 1996: Pfeil und Bogen, though it's focused on Bronze and Early Iron Age. I'll try to look for it tomorrow in our library, but last time I checked it was loaned.

The Nydam and Vimose bows usually are considered longbows (See Hardy and Strickland Ch. 2), but the Neolithic ones are important too because they show that the technology was a very old one and was not originally confined to the far north.

You are lucky to know German already, because there's some snazzy German scholarship on bows which I can't read yet.