Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld ...

According to the researchers, they re-discovered the technology independently in the Americas. It might not seem like the ...

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 ...

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* It's a spear-thrower used by ancient people consisting of a stick of wood about the length of your forearm with a handle on one end and a hook on the other. The atlatl connects to a light-weight ...

Archaeologists say it s the atlatl, a simple handheld device with which 5- to 8-foot arrow-like darts are hurled at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Of course, that was thousands of years ago when woolly ...