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 ...

A hunter stepped back in time when he decided to take on the challenge of harvesting an alligator with a stone age weapon known as an atlatl. "I've been kind of interested my entire life," said Ryan ...

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 ...

Scott Jones is one of the nation's top experts on primitive technology - the tools used by humans and human ancestors tens of thousands, even millions of years ago. He's intensely interested in things ...

Montana Technological University students stepped back in time thousands of years this fall as they learned how to toss an atlatl, a prehistoric s ...

Should a mammoth or any other prehistoric or imaginary creature wander into the Fromm's backyard in Great Falls, Nolan, 10, and Aidan, 7, are ready. The boys have been practicing with their atlatls n ...

Throwing the primitive dart from his self-carved atlatl, Jerry Nevins gains great satisfaction from using the tools he has made. Since growing up in the remote Mid-Missouri woods, Nevins has been fond ...

WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a ...

History tells us Aztec warriors gripped a spear-launching tool when Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico, and the Aborigines used a similar, deadly-accurate weapon when Captain James Cook stepped foot in ...