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Cheaper and easier to manufacture than bows and requires far less (supervised) training to master to a practically useful level: soldiering. Rokcet, I don't understand this comment. We are talking about hunter-gatherers, aren't we? In that context, what do you mean by soldiering, and why is a bow m...

Complete wooden atlatls with attachments have been found in dry cave sites in Utah, Nevada and Oregon, USA, dating to about 8,000 to 1,600 years ago. Atlatls have also been preserved in waterlogged conditions in Florida, and one made of yew wood, dating to 1,700 years ago, was dredged from the Skag...

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:47 am    Post subject: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What about my questions about the Americans origin of the atlatl> My questions were ignored. There is a national atlatl club with competitions. Some of us are still in bed. Ther...

Why aren't there atlatl contests in the olympics, for example. For the same reason the athletes now wear shoes... [/quote] Funny, but we still have the javelin throw and archery and other "primitive" sports in the olympics. Meanwhile, you'll have your hands full responding to daybrown's p...

I know you can do that with a toy boomerang,
But what is the point of having it come back to you if its purpose
is hunting?
If it hits an animal, it drops.
If you throw it at an animal on the ground, and MISS,
will it come back to you?

Thanks for the link to the championship.

http://www.bosnianpyramid.com/index.html Day, Above is the link to the official site of the Bosnian Pyramid. Major excavation is scheduled to begin in April. I don't have the background to comment on everything you said in your above post on Chalcolithic culture. But I have a feeling you will encoun...

I have been waiting for someone to bring up the atlatl. In spite of having such an important hunting tool (and war implement?), it has been forgotten. Why aren't there atlatl contests in the olympics, for example. And for that matter, the boomerang, too... I've never seen a good demonstration of eit...

OK, BOb. Thanks for your opinion.
I look forward to reading the others.

Some acquaintances of mine were in Italy a few years back and they found a Roman artifact on the ground somewhere, and brought it back to the US. They found it in field outside a town on the coast near Rome, in a field littered with old bricks, stones, and so on. When I chided them about taking it, ...

Welcome back, Terry!

Yes, it is interesting, but I wonder why anyone is surprised? Possible answer: the difference in the schools systems in the UK and US. Here we always have the struggle between the state and federal governments. The states are supposed to be in charge of education, and there is a variety of beliefs a...

thanks for posting that mosaic! All this makes me appreciate Livy even more...in his account, he acknowledges that it might all be all apocryphal. By the way, if the henchman were supposed to KILL romulus and remus, why didn't they just drown them instead of putting them in a nice little floating ba...

Michelle did post it on the Archaeologica News for Jan. 24.
That's where I saw it first, and your apology was signed"Guest," so I thought she was apologizing!
But anyway, its OK.



You're probably right about "yard" and "plaza"!

I still think it is badly translated Spanish,or perhaps
written in English by a person whose first language is espanol.
But, Michelle, don't apologize for posting it...
Apparently nothing like it has been found before
in Peru.
But wouldn't a picture be nice? Soon we will see one, I imagine.

This is a case in which a picture would be worth a thousand words. (badly translated from Spanish?) The new kind of building is a "yard."?? It doesn't have a roof... it sounds like a series of open stalls or booths where craftsmen worked.... It's neat, but what is "unique" about ...