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atlatl

(ät`lätəl) [Nahuatl], device used to throw a spear with greater propulsion. Atlatls began to be used in the Americas in the post-Pleistocene period and were eventually replaced by the bow and arrow.
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At the time, use of the atlatl for deer hunting was limited to Missouri's firearms season.
The atlatl alternative: Missouri hunter Paul Gragg's giant 15-pointer is the largest modern whitetail taken with one of history's most primitive hunting weapons. Here's the story of Paul's amazing hunt and the ancient tool that made it happen
His atlatl wouldn't be much of a match to my shotgun either, but one thing I'm sure of regardless of our 1,500-year age difference; we both understood the thrill of the hunt.
Grand passage epiphany: a stone point found during 2014's mass migration shows an ancient duck hunter was here first
Por ejemplo, la presencia del atlatl y del mortero giratorio, tecnologias no empleadas por sus vecinos, los yumanos, de Baja California, pero que si estan presentes en distantes culturas mesoamericanas y australianas, y los disenos de piedra en el suelo, conocidos como intaglios o geoglifos, cuya funcion aun se desconoce.
Shuk Toak. Historia natural y cultural de un geosimbolo de Sonora
Forest thinning caused by widespread firing of ground litter may have led to a change in game species that favored the recently introduced bow and arrow over the atlatl and dart for communal caribou hunting.
El efecto de la caida de ceniza en el White River: ?catalizador de migracion o un evento local?
pdf) to ethnobotany to an investigation of the physics of the atlatl (www.
When 'Birds of a Feather' try their wings
El artefacto denominado atlatl es un lanzador de dardos hecho de madera dura.
Shuk Toak. Historia natural y cultural de un geosimbolo de Sonora
Esta figura astada, que blande un atlatl y un venablo, pasa a traves de la cuspide del arco serpenteado, que identifique antes como la Montana de la Aurora.
El arte rupestre de tejas: analisis contextual de motivos recurrentes en el area de la desembocadura del rio Pecos
I had only just let him get into the bow issue, a bit of the atlatl, then I had wimped--on linguistic traces, normally my forte, basketry, ho hummh, and sherds, yawn.
Temporal foundations in the construction of history: two essays
Once hypothesis is that composite points were used as thrusting spears in disadvantage-hunting strategies against large ungulates, perhaps in conjunction with bifacial point-tipped atlatl darts, whereas the latter were also used in encounter or pursuit hunting of smaller game.
Exploratory models of intersite variability in mid to late Holocene central Alaska
From ATLATL to ZOOZOO, and KAVAKAVA to TUCUTUCU, from DIVIDIVI to QUINAQUINA, and RIRORIRO to CHIQUICHIQUI, they all catch your eye.
Accidental tautonyms
Martin's progressively popular "Blitzkrieg" theory posits that humans, the Clovis culture of present-day New Mexico in particular, caused the extermination of seventy-five percent of America's late Pleistocene megafauna--plodding giants that, relative to their African and Asian counterparts, were afforded precious little time to adapt to large-brained Homo sapiens who, by 13,000 years ago, had ably hunted with fluted stone points fastened to wooden shafts and portable spear levers called atlatl.
The World Without Us
The atlatl was a throwing stick or board with a notch at one end, used to propel a dart--much like a lacrosse stick does for a ball.
Ancestry of the land before time: more than crude oil is being uncovered in northern Alberta's vast boreal forests, where people have lived for eleven millennia

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