People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, ...

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Aztec priests at Tenochtitlán offered a whole galaxy of starfish to the war god Huitzilopochtli 700 years ago, along with a trove of other objects from the distant edges of the Aztec Empire.

Archaeologists say it s the atlatl, a simple handheld device with which 5- to 8-foot arrow-like darts are hurled at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Of course, that was thousands of years ago when woolly ...

There are lots of variations. The atlatl - the name of which comes from the Aztec word for 'water' and can be loosely translated as 'used to hunt ducks' - has always had many variations. The wood, or ...