The atlatl is not just a fun word to say, it's a tool that predates the bow and arrow. Pronounced aht-laht-l, the atlatl is an ancient tool to throw spear-like darts believed to have been around for ...

Brent Davis stood like an Ice Age hunter with his arm cocked and holding a flat, notched stick above his shoulder. The schoolteacher from Gypsum, Colo., paused for a moment before he took aim at a ...

Hildebrandt and King (2012) propose a new method for distinguishing between archaeologically obtained atlatl darts and arrow points, suggesting their dart-arrow index identifies specimens more ...

From her spot inside her family's 106-year-old barn, Dawn Wagner watched a young spike buck approach an apple tree 13 yards away. Heart racing, she took careful aim and did what ancient hunters did 20 ...

"An atlatl does 120-140 (feet per second) - which is not much slower, and it's moving a dart that has about three times the mass of an arrow from a bow." Not surprisingly, heavy projectiles thusly ...

Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...

The deer was eating leaves off an apple tree when she prepared to throw. She’d missed the previous two — both throws too high — but this time was different. Dawn Wagner of Truxton, Mo., heard the ...