By dating 136 preserved organic weapons, researchers have now estimated the bow and arrow arrived in North America about ...

Primitive skills require a deep understanding of the natural world for successful hunting and gathering. This video showcases various techniques for building tools and hunting, including: - ...

This series of four images shows UW Assistant Professor Randy Haas successfully using an atlatl while carrying his son, Hank, on his back. The lower image shows the atlatl and dart Haas used during ...

Atlatl workshop Sept. 21 from noon to 5 p.m. Atlatl experts Bob and Cheryll Berg of Thunderbird Atlatl teach traditional and modern techniques of atlatl and dart construction, flint knapping, hafting ...

Celine Thouin learned a lot as a student at Franklin Pierce University, and one of the skills she has held onto the longest is how to use an ancient spear-throwing tool. She got to share that skill ...

Atlatl construction has always taken advantage of local material, and the ones the novices use are no exception. They're made of PVC pipe. The darts are made of willow with metal or wooden tips and ...

Most visitors to the Archaeology Fair on Saturday will never need to use their newly-found skills of throwing with an atlatl or describing a moose in sign language. But if event director Gwendolyn ...

I would’ve assumed, as a first approximation, that the main determinant of kinetic energy would be how much could be transferred from the muscles, rather than the properties of the projectile? Does a ...