The History of Laddle Darts

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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

Spears! Sharp rocks! Ancient blades, bows and arrows and ...atlatls? What’s an atlatl? Experimental Archaeologist and decades-long ancient tool enthusiast Angelo Robledo is as passionate as an ologist can get. You likely have never heard of an atlatl, but by the end of the episode you’ll be carving one out of old lumber. Also covered: early axes, Indigenous traditions of Central and South America, ancient graffiti, tales of field work, archeology heroes, what to do if you find artifacts on a hike, and the physics of how far you can lob ancient weaponry, plus: the World Atlatl Association.

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