How to Make an at-Lattle

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At-lattles are a lot easier to make than bows and arrows. When I made my first at-lattle, I was maybe like 11 years old or something like that. The dart is the hard part. You need to have a dart that's flexible enough. They're pretty easy to make, especially if you're not going to do a traditional method or make it out of stone tools. Just buy stuff at Home Depot. No big deal. It doesn't have to be as thin as if it's really long. So any material at a certain length becomes flexible, no matter the thickness. And then Vittypong wants to know if he was marooned on

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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