Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from ...

The weekend of events starts at noon on Friday, all to celebrate the atlatl, an ancient spear-throwing tool used to hunt ...

The spear-throwing tool – which is known as an atlatl – is a handheld stick with a groove at the end for holding a projectile. It acts as a lever to amplify the projectile-flinging momentum ...

Much later in hominin development, modern humans devised spear-throwers called atlatls that allowed them to fling projectiles at greater velocity and hunt game from farther away—likely providing ...

Big improvements for Celebration Park — the decades-old boardwalk at the atlatl range was torn up and will be replaced with a ...

For thousands of years, hunters hurled spears to bring down massive megafauna. The atlatl was a ground-breaking invention that not only enabled hunters to throw spears faster and harder but made ...