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COACHING THE ATLATL: How a Spearthrower Throws a Spear. John Whittaker Feb 2002, revised April 20, 2023 Throwing a dart with an atlatl is a complex sequence of motions. It is difficult to visualize and explain exactly what happens, and a number of fallacies and odd theories have made their way into the literature. Unlike … Read More “How to throw with an atlatl” »
Dear Atlatl Friends, I regret to tell you that the envelope that was supposed to include all my forwarded office mail, especially ISAC scores, just reached me empty and torn. Accordingly, for this year so far (April 11) I have only a few scores sent to me as emails. If you kept duplicate scoresheets in … Read More “EMAIL ISAC SCORES” »
“The Bodies in the Cave” by Rachel Monroe (Contributing writer at The New Yorker covering Texas and the Southwest) from the Magazine, The New Yorker, October 10, 2022 Issue By Frank Lukes, Editor of The Atlatl This article follows Byron Schroeder, Head of the Center for Big Bend Studies, a research institute focused on archaeology … Read More “Review: The Bodies in the Cave” »
Take a tour of the Experimental Archeology lab in Ohio. Video Tour ALSO: “Janice Wood and Ben Fitzhugh, from the University of Washington’s anthropology department, tried to answer this question by reconstructing the prehistoric projectiles and points that would have been in these hunters’ arsenal.” read more at Atlasobscura.com