ADDISON, Vt. –The 22nd Annual Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship at the Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison will be September 22-24, 2017. This ancient spear-throwing tool competition is a ...

Jack Urdiales, a UW graduate student studying anthropology, demonstrates how to throw the atlatl at the 2024 Archaeology Fair. This year’s fair is scheduled 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at the ...

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 ...

At a point during human prehistory, hunters' reliance on the spear-thrower, or atlatl, shifted to another kind of weapon — the self-bow. This change happened on multiple continents (though bows never ...

A new study led by Archaeologist Michelle Bebber, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Kent State University’s Department of Anthropology, has demonstrated that the atlatl (i.e. spear thrower) functions ...

EDMONTON, CANADA—Live Science reports that researchers led by Robert Losey of the University of Alberta examined more than 90 atlatls and fragments of such weapons recovered from the Par-Tee shell ...

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 ...