Atlatls likely appeared in North America around 10,000 years ago, after the Clovis culture
For decades, archaeologists pictured North America’s first big game hunters using the atlatl, a handheld spear thrower that sends a flexible dart farther and faster than a hand-thrown spear. The weapon has long been linked with the Clovis culture, whose people lived about 13,340 to 12,710 years ago and...
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