atlatl
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In another study published last month, researchers tested how males and females used an atlatl, a common prehistoric hunting weapon.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2023
Fourteen years ago, in the mountain ice outside Yellowstone National Park, he spotted the foreshaft of a throwing spear called an atlatl dart, carved from a birch sapling 10,300 years ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
In portraits carved on stone monuments there, the new king, named Yax Nuun Ayiin, holds an atlatl, a spearthrower used by Teotihuacan warriors, and wears a Teotihuacan-style headdress adorned with tassels.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 27, 2020
One time, to better understand if paleo-Indian hunters could kill a mammoth with an atlatl, he conducted an unusual experiment.
From Washington Times • May 30, 2015
Spears and darts were often thrown with a wooden stick or hurler called an atlatl.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
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