Archaeologists say it s the atlatl, a simple handheld device with which 5- to 8-foot arrow-like darts are hurled at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Of course, that was thousands of years ago when woolly ...

Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...

A hunter stepped back in time when he decided to take on the challenge of harvesting an alligator with a stone age weapon known as an atlatl. "I've been kind of interested my entire life," said Ryan ...

Scott Jones is one of the nation's top experts on primitive technology - the tools used by humans and human ancestors tens of thousands, even millions of years ago. He's intensely interested in things ...

When it comes to primitive hunting, Ray Madden has the granddaddy of all projectile weapons in his arsenal. Madden, 74, already holds the distinction of being the first Missourian to kill a squirrel ...

Throwing the primitive dart from his self-carved atlatl, Jerry Nevins gains great satisfaction from using the tools he has made. Since growing up in the remote Mid-Missouri woods, Nevins has been fond ...

AUSTIN — Squinting into the late afternoon sun, I saw my target, frozen in place and watching my every move. I gently reached back and then flicked my arm forward, snapping my wrist like a ...

History tells us Aztec warriors gripped a spear-launching tool when Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico, and the Aborigines used a similar, deadly-accurate weapon when Captain James Cook stepped foot in ...

WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a ...