An ancient hunting tool is taking center stage at the Chimney Point State Historic Site this weekend as competitors gather for the 31st annual Northeastern Atlatl Championship. An atlatl is an ancient ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

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St. Charles, Mo. – Missouri is a great place to hunt deer. In fact, it's a place that makes it possible to harvest a trophy 15-point buck only four months after taking up one of hunting's most ...

It was just four years ago that I found my first Native American artifact (a sugar quartz point), and the excitement that came from that singular event has led to almost an addiction for me. Two ...

A Missouri deer hunter harvested a trophy 15-point buck only four months after taking up one of hunting's most challenging methods. He used an atlatl. When Paul Gragg of Defiance, Mo., set out to bag ...

Just outside the high-tech setting of Harvard’s Biological Laboratories, students were engaged in a decidedly low-tech activity: throwing spears across the quad. A group of six were trying their hands ...

Learn the basics of spear throwing with an atlatl at Poverty Point World Heritage Site on Saturday. A ranger will discuss tips and techniques for using these ancient hunting tools, and participants ...

The ancient saber-toothed tiger is bent over, guarding a carcass of a horned bull. About 20 yards away, Bob Sizemore surveys his target. Sizemore lifts a curved piece of wood half the length of his ...

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 ...