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	Atlatl
		An atlatl is about two feet long and similar in appearance to a large crocheting needle, with the hook of the needle being fitted into the end of the dart.
		Reports indicate that the atlatl dart was capable of piercing the armor of the invaders and the barb on the end of the six-foot darts effectively pinned the soldiers inside of their suits of armor where they slowly died.
		The atlatl, a relic compared to the firearms and armor of the Spanish, was still a formidable weapon in the hands of an expert user who could accurately fire its deadly dart at a range of over 100 yards.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/ancienttech/atlatl.html (766 words)

	ATLATL WEIGHTS: Function and Classification
		Atlatl weights do not possess a sufficient enough mass to significantly influence the speed at which an atlatl is swung in order to affect some degree of timing based on velocity.
		Therefore, the atlatl weight is a timing device influencing the amount and rate at which the spring energy of an atlatl is stored and released against the spring energy of a dart.
		Atlatls from the Western United States, which Type I and II atlatl weights tend to represent, are approximately 60 cm in length.
	www.hollowtop.com /spt_html/atlweights.htm (2739 words)

	ATLATL WEIGHTS: Function and Classification
		Atlatl weights do not possess a sufficient enough mass to significantly influence the speed at which an atlatl is swung in order to affect some degree of timing based on velocity.
		Therefore, the atlatl weight is a timing device influencing the amount and rate at which the spring energy of an atlatl is stored and released against the spring energy of a dart.
		Atlatls from the Western United States, which Type I and II atlatl weights tend to represent, are approximately 60 cm in length.
	www.primitive.org /atlweights.htm (2739 words)

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		The atlatl was used by pre-Columbian cultures thruoughout north america.
		The spear thrower has survived into this century only in a few isolated areas such as Australia where it is called the wumera by the aborigines, and the Inuit have used the nordaq to hunt from kayaks.
		The atlatl is also used with a line attached to catch fish.
	www.msu.edu /~oberg/index.html (387 words)

	Game commission staff advises against ancient atlatl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The staff report said the atlatl, a wooden piece that propels an arrowlike dart, is not deadly enough.
		"Staff is not convinced that an atlatl and dart, in the hands of the average hunter, possesses sufficient lethality to ethically and humanely harvest a deer in Pennsylvania," the report said.
		Atlatl hunters have killed bison with the weapon, but animal rights activists are concerned they could wound and maim too great a percentage of deer.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06011/635707.stm (393 words)

	Atlatl Information
		The atlatl (pronounced ät-lät-ŭl or more authentically with two syllables ['a.tɬatɬ]), or "spear thrower", is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in spear-throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to temporarily store elastic energy during the throw.
		In Europe, the atlatl and dart was replaced by the bow and arrow in the Epi-Palaeolithic.
		The Aztecs reinvented the atlatl after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in their lands and they were used extensively during the resulting war.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Atlatl (755 words)

	Atlatl Digest - Atlatls 'N More
		When I began throwing darts with an atlatl I was intrigued by the prominent role that it had played in human survival through the periods when great ice sheets and massive climatic disruptions raked the face of the globe.
		The atlatl community is comprised of people from all walks of life the professional to the specifically skilled laborer — the socialites to the modern day gypsies.
		Atlatl Digest and, indeed, this entire website was created for the sole purpose of saying ‘thank you’ to my creator for guiding me to this group of people, who — with few exceptions — I have developed strong bonds of friendship and brotherhood.
	www.atlatls-n-more.com /AtlatlDigest (768 words)

	Atlatl
		The atlatl is a device that is used to throw a light weight spear called a dart with considerable mechanical advantage.
		Atlatls were widely used world wide before the advent of the bow and arrow.
		The power that the atlatl imparts to the spear is so great that the Aztecs started reusing atlatl technology to pierce the armor of Spanish Conquistadoras in the sixteenth century.
	www.flight-toys.com /atlatl.html (317 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Michigan Atlatl Championship
		Atlatl and dart in hand, the loincloth-clad hunter quietly crept through the dense ferns, inching ever closer to a lone mastodon lagging behind the rest of its herd.
		Taking careful aim, he swung the atlatl, sending the deadly shaft hurtling to the heart of the beast with a single killing blow.
		All the men, women, and children of the MAA take pride in handcrafting their own atlatls and darts and are happy to share their knowledge of weapons and techniques with anyone willing to learn.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0509.atlatl-review.html (507 words)

	Atlatl - Cantr II Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The atlatl is a weak weapon that is not often used because of its relatively complex construction and use of leather.
		Pronunced "ott-lottle", an atlatl is a weapon renowned for its use against the Spanish conquistadors accompanying Cortez in Mexico around 1500.
		The dart is placed on the atlatl, and then using the leverage of the atlatl, launched into the air.
	www.cantr.net /mwiki/index.php/Atlatl (178 words)

	Columbia Missourian - Advocating Atlatl
		The atlatl is essentially a rod or narrow boardlike device, used to increase the speed and distance of a dart or lightweight spear when thrown by hand.
		The atlatl predates the bow and arrow, he said, and seems to have been introduced to early Native Americans during the immigration across the Bering Land Bridge, a wide seabed that connected Asia and North America during the last ice age.
		His atlatls range from modern to primitive types, using turkey feathers for fletching, native river cane or exotic woods from Central or South America for the shaft and antlers of deer for the cup, that the spear or dart rests on to propel the throw.
	columbiamissourian.com /news/story.php?ID=22138 (1091 words)

	BLM - Environmental Education - MYSTERY OF THE MESA
		When we put an atlatl in the hand, the distance between the wristjoint and the end of the atlatl is 60 centimeters.
		Thus the throwing speed at the end of the atlatl is 10 times that of the throwing speed of the hand alone.
		Holding a grooved atlatl in his left hand, Dennis Stanford, Curator of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, fits the spear's flint-tipped foreshaft into the the main shaft into the main shaft before loading the butt into the groove.
	www.blm.gov /education/00_resources/articles/mystery_of_the_mesa/posterback.html (1703 words)

	Spear Thrower
		The spear flies away from the stick, an atlatl, towards the hay bales 30 metres away and thunks into the flattened cardboard beer carton that serves as a target.
		The atlatl itself is about 60 centimetres long, with a handle at one end and the small, sharp spur at the other.
		The atlatl accelerates the rear of the dart through an arc, with a movement similar to that of an ancient ballista** flinging boulders against the enemy.
	donsmaps.com /atlatl.html (2190 words)

	The Mathematics of the ATLATL
		The atlatl is basically a stick with a hook on one end to hold a dart and a handle on the other end that is grasped by the thrower, see illustration below.
		Atlatls were eventually replaced by bows and arrows, but were used in North America for more than 10,000 years.
		Skills such as graphing could be incorporated by having students plot the range of an atlatl throw as a function of the departure angle (this would be a sine function).
	oak.ucc.nau.edu /ratliff/ccligrant/Atlatl.html (963 words)

	Atlatl Weights
		This enables the atlatl to store more spring energy to be used to push the dart away from the atlatl.
		These would be located along the atlatl shaft to render a smoother response to the flex of the atlatl with distributed point masses as opposed to one concentrated mass.
		Atlatls from the Eastern United States on the other hand, appear to have been somewhat shorter at approximately 40cm.
	www.abotech.com /Articles/Perkins03.htm (2719 words)

	Thunderbird Atlatl
		Since that time, the atlatl events in Ohio have grown and members of the Ohio Atlatl Association are extremely active in promoting the atlatl.
		The atlatl is used to propel a dart, a slim flexible spear, at greater speeds and distances with increased accuracy and target penetration than could be obtained casting a spear just by hand.
		There are still indigenous people who use the atlatl for hunting and fishing and its last known use as a weapon of war was during World War Two when a platoon of atlatl wielding Australian aborigines was formed to protect the island continent from invasion by the Japanese.
	www.thunderbirdatlatl.com (865 words)

	Death by Ataltl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		It is clear from this that atlatls came in all shapes and sizes, with shorter ones used mostly for fishing and larger ones for hunting and warfare.
		Throwing a dart with an atlatl system is much like throwing a spear, the significant difference being that the atlatl extends the length of the pendulum of the thrower’s shoulder to the point of release.
		William (Atlatl Bob) Perkins, an engineer-archaeologist from Manhattan, Montana, USA (and manufacturer of my Warrior atlatl) has researched the function of these weights that were fixed to ancient atlatls.
	www.africanarcher.com /ataltl.htm (810 words)

	atlatl, primitive technology
		This helps hold it in place but the dart is also held onto the atlatl with the thumb and first finger of the hand that is holding it in preparation for the cast.
		When the atlatl reaches somewhere around the halfway point of the cast the dart springs off of the pin and flys into the air.
		The atlatl has been in use for at least 20,000 years and predates the bow and arrow.
	www.onagocag.com /atlatl2.html (313 words)

	Atlatl. - FMA Talk
		The atlatl was a pain in the ass to use.
		The primary advantage to using an atlatl is the fact that it can generate the force of a spear, without the complications presented by the length of the spear.
		Atlatl darts are shorter and thus more portable, a person can carry a larger number of them, and their length makes it much easier to find appropriate materials to make them.
	fmatalk.com /showthread.php?t=400 (1893 words)

	Atlatl, Inc.
		Atlatl, Inc. was founded in 1981 and operated under the name of Accu-Rater, Inc. until January 3, 2000.
		Atlatl sees itself as a technology company and our growth philosophy has been development using new technologies as opposed to geographic expansion of a static product.
		Atlatl can have the Acrobat forms interact with databases to prefill information before the download of the form and to submit updated data to databases after the agent has completed the form.
	www.accu-rater.com /atl_about.html (615 words)

	UST Services
		Atlatl provides risk assessments to help clients determine potential environmental liabilities from their underground storage tanks.
		Atlatl provides complete excavation, tank removal and backfill services, including acquisition of all required permits to remove, dismantle, and dispose of underground storage tanks, associated piping, and residual liquids.
		Atlatl can perform three-dimensional modeling on complex hydrogeological projects, to identify plumes from surface and subsurface spills, and to estimate spill ages and probable migration.
	www.atlatlinc.com /services/ust.htm (298 words)

	Making an Atlatl From a Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Despite the worldwide variations in the design of the atlatl, the basic components are still the same.
		The handle of the oak atlatl was wrapped with split pine root.
		When looking for that atlatl branch, be mindful of the environment and the tree in which you will be harvesting the branch.
	www.primitiveways.com /atlatl_branch.html (387 words)

	The Atlatl and Dart: An Ancient Hunting Weapon
		Among all the technologies invented the atlatl and dart was the first true weapons system, consisting of both a projectile and a launching device.
		The purpose of atlatl weights was controversial among archaeologists, who speculated that it was either a counterbalance to steady the board or a "magic charm." Perkins has demonstrated mathematically that it was neither.
		Nevertheless, it is legal to hunt with the atlatl in Montana during the general rifle season as long as you stick to the basic hunting rules-wear hunter's orange, have a valid license, and shoot only during daylight hours.
	www.hollowtop.com /atlatlbob.htm (1316 words)

	atlatl information
		Many sources have documented the chilling effect that the atlatl had on the conquistadors who accompanied Cortez on his trek through Mexico in 1520 A.D. The Spanish felt they were the better equipped, state of the art, military machine.
		But hundreds of years later atlatls were a mystery and many scholars were doubtful that the stories told by the conquistadors could be true.
		Those who tried to make atlatls were somewhat disappointed in the performance and the secrets of the atlatl seemed lost in the past.
	www.onagocag.com /atlatl.html (412 words)

	Atlatl Bob - Precision Atlatl & Dart Systems
		The Atlatl is an angular accelerator, accelerating the Dart from the rear in an arc.
		However, the Atlatl and Dart is the first true and natural weapons system of the human race, invented thousands of years before the Bow and Arrow and used longer by humans than any other weapon system yet developed.
		The Atlatl is the supreme expression of our natural ability to throw a projectile at a prey animal and is our advantage over all other predators, which makes us the supreme predator.
	rd.business.com /index.asp?epm=s.1&bdcq=Atlatl&bdcr=1&bdcu=http://www.atlatl.com/&bdcp=&partner=2662601&bdcs=nwuuid-2662601-46DCE798-EC92-6547-DF5A-C266C9983BFE-ym (633 words)

	Atlatl Archaeology - Learning About Primitive Atlatl and Dart Weapon Systems - Atlatl Bob
		In fact the Atlatl and Dart were used and improved upon for so long by our ancient ancestors that, comparatively speaking, the Bow and Arrow can be considered a recent development in projectile technology.
		So powerful and effective was the Atlatl that scientist and scholars speculate that it, along with the overkill tactics so common to the human race, caused the extinction of the woolly mammoth in North America before the end of the ice age.
		In fact, the Atlatl and Dart were the only weapon Cortez and his Conquistadors feared because it easily piercing Spanish armor, often sending the hapless soldier to meet his Maker.
	www.atlatl.com /archeology.html (525 words)

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