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Weapons

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Pouring lead in the pouring rain. Making lead slingshot under battle conditions (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A V A J Bosman.

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Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George C Frison.

J. Whittaker: Detailed summaries of many sites, especially kill sites, including Paleoindian. Colby, Hanson, Agate Basin, Casper, Horner, Finley sites. Cultural chronology and projectile points. Photos Late Archaic (200-500 AD) atlatl and foreshafts from Spring Creek Cave. Comments on hunting and butchery with stone tools and bone expedient tools. Lots of experiments with stone points and foreshafts, but mostly with thrusting spears. [Atlatl experiments mentioned in passing, and he seems to feel...

Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George C Frison.

J. Whittaker: Some of same material as 1978, but different book. Includes more info on atlatls and weapons, stone tool chapter by Bruce Bradley. [Quality of production is disgraceful - line drawings and text slightly murky, photos look like something printed in 1950s India.]

A Preliminary Report on the So-Called "Bannerstones" (1921)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Leonard Baer.

J. Whittaker: C.C. Abbott responsible for term "bannerstone". 3 bannerstones with short stone shafts from NC, one pictured [can't tell if hole goes all the way through] Describes manufacture process from site in PA: slate blocked out, pecked, scraped, drilled, polished. Experiments by McGuire suggest 10.5 hrs for all that. Fragile, unsharpened, no practical use: "mounted upon handles for ceremonial use".

Preliminary Results of an Experimental Investigation of Magdalenian Antler Points (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulrich Stodiek.

J. Whittaker: from work for 1993: antler pts all that remain of darts assoc with Upper Paleolithic atlatls. Double + single beveled points show diameter around 10 mm, = shaft size, which works with shafts 1.3-2.2 m long. Tested using crossbow device, 30 m/sec velocity, at 15 m range, equivalent to velocity attained with spearthrower. Used gutted fallow deer carcass, 45 kg. Points attached with only resin/wax glue failed or split shaft, but lashing of sinew made the hafting strong enough. Body...

Probable uses of stone projectile points (1957)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oren F Evans.

The Problem of the Atlatl (1940)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E Y Guernsey.

J. Whittaker: “additional lever or toggle-joint by means of which comination the propulsive force applied to the spearshaft is greatly increased.” “We have scratched the surface of an intriguing field of research....and prolific literature.” [Already! and mentions experiments - personal? - but no descriptions]. Problems: origins, symbolic significance. Green River sites, Webb’s conclusions about bannerstones which he regards as from poor analogy to Guernsey + Kidders SW atlatls which had only...

The problem of the plunging neckline (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Godfrey Knight.

Produkcja grotów beltów do kuszy w sredniowieczku swietle wspólczesnych prób eksperymentalnych (1975)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A Kola. G Wilke.

Projectile Points (1940)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jim Browne.

J. Whittaker: Size of points is not a good marker for dating "pre-bow" - Pt 87 mm long, 37 wide on arrow still shoots many "too large" pts actually ok for bow and arrow. Experiments with self bow and Basketmaker type atlatl: "Any close degree of accuracy is impossible with atlatl and spear." (uses overhead sweep, full extension) 6 mo practice "can't hit buffalo 1 out of 10 at 30 yards." Bow much more accurate. Dart greater penetration than arrow with same pt. Maximum atlatl throw 81...

Projectile points of bone, antler, and stone: experimental explorations of manufacture and use (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Knecht.

Projectile Technology (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Knecht.

Präzise und von hoher Durchschlagskraft (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jürgen Junkmanns.

Punching a hole in blowgun theories: an Aboriginal blowgun manufacturing technique (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Meyer.

På jagt med stenaldervåben (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anders Fischer.

The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions - Discovering the Varus Battlefield (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tony Clunn.

In 9 A.D., the 17th, 18th, & 19th Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius—a Roman-trained German warrior adopted and subsequently knighted by the Romans, but determined to stop Rome’s advance east beyond the Rhine River. By the time it was over, some 25,000 men, women, and children were dead and the course of...

A Quick Light Flexible Atlatl and Dart Made with Expedient Stone Tools (2012)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Campbell.

A quickie primitive dart (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Meyer.

A rabbit-stick from stone tools (2012)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connor O’Malley.

The Raging Cow: An Atlatl Contest Among the Corn (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kris Hirst.

J. Whittaker: Good basic info on atlatls, description of event, photos.

Reconstructing the cheiroballistra (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A Wilkins.

The reconstruction and firing of a replica of a 14th-century cannon (1999)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert D Smith.

The reconstruction and use of a Lorica Hamata (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Garlick.

Reconstruction of a decorated shield-boss (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Len Morgan.

Reinventing the atlatl (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur Robert Tolley. Jack Barnes.

J. Whittaker: Experiments with lots of variables [controlled and un]: fletched and unfletched darts, lengths 127-232 cm, compound elderberry shaft with hardwood foreshaft, lead points, 10 atlatls of different lengths, some modeled after several ethnographic and archaeological examples, stone weights 27-94 grams, mostly at balance point of atlatl. [All atlatls apparently not flexible.] Lots of practice over 5 months, 10-60 meters. High speed filming of throwing action, drawing presented. Gauge...

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