The 7-foot-long shaft is made of Missouri-native river cane he cut and straightened; the bannerstone weight he handcarved himself. Throwing the primitive dart from his self-carved atlatl, Jerry Nevins ...

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 ...

Surface collected at an unknown date; acquired by Charles A. Eicher (1883-1951, a collector from Miamisburg, Ohio) at an unknown date; acquired from Charles Eicher by Robert A. Kercher (1919-2009, an ...

The purpose of Saturday's annual Alaska Atlatl Fun and Throw was not lost on 7-year-old David Schreyer. He and his dad spent the afternoon at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, where a parking lot was ...

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 ...

I then turned to the Internet, where I learned the basics of atlatls. Invented by prehistoric physicists approximately 30,000 years before the release of "Cabela's Dangerous Hunts" for the Wii, ...

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 ...

Victoria College hosted its fifth annual on Thursday Atlatl Turkey Shoot, giving students and the public the chance to learn how to throw with Atlatls. There are two components to the atlatl shoot, a ...

Tests of a prehistoric dart-throwing weapon have shown it is even more effective than previously thought. The atlatl weapon can puncture vital organs in bison carcasses and travel so far through the ...

Atlatls date back nearly 20,000 years Missouri hunters have been allowed to use the ancient tool since 2010 Instincts can kick in when throwing a dart using an atlatl The atlatl is not just a fun word ...

Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of James Wood (1839-1925, a prominent educator in Mount Kisco, New York); inherited by his son Levi Hollingsworth Wood (1873-1956, a New York ...