Volume 2, Issue 1
Monday, October 06, 2008
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Featured Articles:
Our sponsors: thank you for your support
BPS Engineering
manufactures of precision atlatl equipment
Society of Primitive Technology
promoting the practice and teaching of aboriginal skills
Missouri Trading Company supplier
of flint knapping tools, metal detectors, and many more. ALL NEW!!
Lost World Archery and
Flintworks Jim Redfearn, a master knapper of 25 years
lives in Greenfield Missouri - Ozark Hill Country.
He specializes in fine designs such as the Hardin point and others.
Additionally, he is a foremost expert in
choosing and heat treating knapping rocks and flints.
Field & Stream
...As the bull paused at the strange smell, four skin-clad hunters
rose from the sedge and leveled their throwing sticks. Their arms moved in an arc as each man launched a reedy projectile that sprang from the stick and covered the 40 yards in the blink of an eye…
Tim Cahill
...The Aztecs called the system - the throwing stick and dart - an Atlatl. Bernal Diaz, a conquistador who wrote the book The Conquest of New Spain about his experiences, called the Atlatl the most feared of all Aztecs weapons. The darts, he said, easily penetrated armor, and many Spaniards died that way, pierced through the chest like so many metallic insects on a display board…
