A pair of researchers with the University of Alberta has found evidence that suggests early Native American adults taught children how to use an atlatl by making a smaller version of the dart-throwing ...

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 ...

Egor Dëmin got downhill, drew help and whipped a behind-the-back pass to Day’Ron Sharpe for a dunk. That’s progress within itself. A quarter later, Chaney Johnson turned the third period into a ...

WALNUT CREEK — Just before sunset three nights a week, Bruce and DeAnne Weidman can be seen engaging in target practice at the Sugarloaf Open Space homestead, throwing darts to the curiosity of trail ...

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 ...

The Willis Carey Wing of the Cashmere Museum in Cashmere, Washington includes an exhibit entitled Primitive Weapons which features the atlatl and the bow. The atlatl is a wooden shaft—often about 18” ...

A recent experimental study led by Kent State University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History suggests that hunting from elevated positions significantly increases the performance of thrown ...

Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...

Until now, the definition of a traditional deer hunter was someone who pursued his quarry with a flintlock rifle like those wielded by frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. But thanks to a ...