Zelia Nuttall on “The Atlatl or Spear-Thrower of the Ancient Mexicans,” published this summer in the third number of the first volume of the “Ethnographical and Ethnological Papers of the ...

A new study has demonstrated that the atlatl (i.e. spear thrower) functions as an 'equalizer', a finding which supports women's potential active role as prehistoric hunters. A new study led by ...

The atlatl, an ancient spear-throwing tool first used thousands of years ago, enables both women and men to launch projectiles with very similar velocities. The discovery, which comes from modern ...

Atlatls are not toys, Poe emphasized. They are a spear-thrower for darts. When you load your atlatl with a dart, the throw can be instinctive. "Like throwing a ball or like shooting a firearm or ...

Have you ever heard of an atlatl? It is an ancient tool that uses leverage to allow a spear to be thrown faster and further. It is a lot like the... Oct 10, 2014 — Have you ever heard of an atlatl?

Spear-throwers, or atlatls ... weapons had shown that each projectile weapon type — thrown spear, atlatl dart and arrow — bent in different ways during flight, which resulted in distinctive ...

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from an atlatl (spear thrower). This could explain the apparent non-adoption ...

The weekend of events starts at noon on Friday, all to celebrate the atlatl, an ancient spear-throwing tool used to hunt before the bow and arrow. There are events at Chimney Point all weekend.