Still, this is likely the oldest collection of weapons found in North America, as the other parts of the dart system (including the stone and wood tips) were associated with the atlatl ...

Organized, modern atlatl throwing contests first emerged ... The thrower attaches an extra device to the tip of his dart, which snags the spinning target when it hits its mark.

Tests of a prehistoric dart-throwing weapon have shown it is even more effective than previously thought. The atlatl weapon can puncture vital organs in bison carcasses and travel so far through ...

The 10,000-year-old atlatl dart was discovered in a melting patch ... The dart, along with other finds in melting ice, is in some ways the tip of the iceberg. "We didn't realize until the early ...

Six stations were set up, each with a target, several spear-length darts and an assortment of atlatls, which are levering devices that hurl darts longer and farther than hand-thrown spears.

Wagner used an atlatl to launch a long dart into the deer's side, hitting the creature solidly with the steel-tipped point. "When you have a deer right in front of you, you get a little bit ...

(Carcross/Tagish First Nation) At first, Jennifer Herkes didn't realize what had been found — she thought it was a piece of an atlatl dart. "I thought, 'Oh yeah, that's neat,'" she recalled.

The oldest known organic artifact associated with a mountain ice patch — a 10,000-year-old, 42-inch long birch atlatl dart — was uncovered in 2007 in the Wyoming portion of the Beartooth ...