Posted on 01/09/2019 12:41:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
were hunting mammoths with javelins.
Wow, AMC was around a lot longer than I thought...
Ha ha, Im ancient enough to appreciate the humor
I think the Atlatl and darts worked quite well for a delivery device so there was no real need to improve these much. What they did do was concentrate efforts into improving methods of knapping lithics and the quality of lithics for the points.
The earliest bows found are dated to around 18,000 years ago. But they spread pretty slow. In fact they didn’t come to the Americas in the arctic until around 200 Ad. But even then when the Spanish went to conquer South America in the 1500’s the South American indigenous were still using the atlatl and darts.
That’s a fact. lol
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