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 ...

Stirling, Matthew Williams. 1960. "The use of the atlatl on Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan." Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 173, (59) 261–268.

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 ...

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 ...