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 ...

It may not be out of place to call attention to an exhaustive little memoir by Mrs. Zelia Nuttall on “The Atlatl or Spear-Thrower of the Ancient Mexicans,” published this summer in the third ...

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 ...

In this video I make a PVC atlatl (spear thrower) and fire darts to go with it! Thanks to my sponsor Dollar Shave Club new members get their 1st month of the Executive Razor with a tube of their ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among their finds, archaeologists identified an atlatl, which is a spear-like dart thrower, and two wooden darts. The atlatl measured a little more than a foot and a half long, and the darts were ...

The ancient weapons include notched ends for the darts of a spear thrower, or atlatl; the foreshafts of darts that had stone tips; and the foreshafts of darts that were probably poisoned.