Experimental Archaeology (OLD TOOLS/ATLATLS) with Angelo Robledo
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The History of Laddle Darts
At laddles were developed during the Pleistocene which is the ice age and they were really used to hunt big ice age megafauna. Spaniards wrote that at laddle darts could go through chain mail and modern tests have proven that at laddy darts will go through chainmail so wow even these european conquistadors who had never seen in that laddle before are seeing tens of thousands of mexica throwing them as tech soldiers. Atlattls dominated in desert environments because they were a little bit more open kind of like how the tundra was open and they would use them to hunt big horn sheep right where i near where i live in lasp
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