Jay Laber, an artist and teacher at Salish Kootenai College, demonstrates the use of an atlatl recently at Pablo. Laber’s own interest in the 30,000-year-old hunting technique used by his Blackfeet ...

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 ...

From her spot inside her family's 106-year-old barn, Dawn Wagner watched a young spike buck approach an apple tree 13 yards away. Heart racing, she took careful aim and did what ancient hunters did 20 ...

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 ...

From her spot inside her family's 106-year-old barn, Dawn Wagner watched a young spike buck approach an apple tree 13 yards away. Heart racing, she took careful aim and did what ancient hunters did 20 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — From her spot inside her family’s 106-year-old barn, Dawn Wagner watched a young spike buck approach an apple tree 13 yards away. Heart racing, she took careful aim and did ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The atlatl projectile was invented long after the javelin. (Getty Images) (Buddy Mays via Getty Images) Prehistoric women actively ...

Ancient, unusual and a tongue-twister — just a few words lawmakers are using to describe a prehistoric weapon that’s made its way onto the pages of proposed legislation at the state capitol. A ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - An ancient weapon that was apparently used as early as prehistoric times to slay woolly mammoths may soon be added to the arsenals of Pennsylvania hunters.The state Game Commission ...

An ancient weapon that was apparently used as early as prehistoric times to slay woolly mammoths may soon be added to the arsenals of Pennsylvania hunters. The state Game Commission is drafting ...

Archaeologists say it s the atlatl, a simple handheld device with which 5- to 8-foot arrow-like darts are hurled at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Of course, that was thousands of years ago when woolly ...