Archaeologist Michelle Bebber holding an atlatl
Metin Eren
The atlatl, an historic spear-throwing instrument first used hundreds of years in the past, allows each ladies and men to launch projectiles with very comparable velocities. The invention, which comes from fashionable experiments involving atlatls, supplies extra proof that prehistoric feminine hunters would have been as succesful as male hunters of placing meat on the desk.
The analysis began when Michelle Bebber at Kent State College in Ohio started educating a course through which dozens of scholars spent a day every semester practising throwing javelins and …
