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To: SunkenCiv

Hmmmm...who among the “Native Americans” used atlatls?


7 posted on 05/26/2013 9:06:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

A whole bunch of them. The word itself is Nahuatl or Aztec.

I have no idea why they didn’t advance to the much more efficient bow. Massed archers could have put a real crimp into the Spanish conquest, though I suppose stone tips would have been ineffective against armor.


8 posted on 05/26/2013 9:15:36 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: BenLurkin
Hmmmm...who among the “Native Americans” used atlatls?

Quite a lot, actually, and it was still in use by some in post Colombian times.

11 posted on 05/26/2013 9:21:57 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: BenLurkin

———who among the “Native Americans” used atlatls?-——

The warriors using atlatls as weapons obviously


15 posted on 05/27/2013 4:52:29 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....Obama Denies Role in Government)
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To: BenLurkin

“Hmmmm...who among the “Native Americans” used atlatls?”— I have no idea, Ben Lurkin. What is the answer to your question?


17 posted on 05/30/2013 1:33:31 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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