Spear (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulrich Stodiek. Harm Paulsen.

J. Whittaker: Sections on spear throwers (Speerschleudern) with color pictures of reconstructions of Upper Paleolithic examples, and European competitions.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Brown Vega. Nathan Craig.

J. Whittaker: Central Andes, Peru, ethnographic slingers asked to throw for distance. Variable throwing style [no details], irregular river stones 4-9 x 2.5-4.5 cm comparable to archaeol specimens, local wool slings ca 1.8 m long. Recorded 142 casts, men, women, youths. Adult men do best, youth may not practice as much now, women up with men except for longest distances. Max distance 130 m, mean 65 m. Finney experiments (novice slinger) at UK Iron Age hill forts underestimate possible range....

DOCUMENT Citation Only František Adámek. Petr Čechák. Vaclav Maria Kolert. Marek Pacák.

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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...

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.]

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noel D Justice.

J. Whittaker: [Justice’s books are tremendously impressive syntheses of all sorts of relevant info, even if you don’t agree with all his typological groupings.] p 16 atlatl vs dart pts by size, Thomas, Fenenga etc refs. p 32-39 foreshaft manufacture, dart evidence from caves - Leonard Rockshelter, Hogup, Danger, Gypsum caves summarized, good pics Hidden Cave, Humboldt Cave foreshafts w stone pts. Hafting mastics include pine pitch, asphaltum, others [some like jojoba seem unlikely]. p 41-45...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George C Frison.

J. Whittaker: Plains area, Paleoindian to historic, all major animal species, behavioral and hunting technique discussions from experience as hunter, rancher, archaeologist. Atlatls discussed briefly, photo of find from Spring Creek Cave, info on experiments with atlatls, Clovis pts and culled elephants. Stresses importance of knowing animal behavior for hunter and for arch trying to interpret past. It was easier to improve stalking and get close to animals, working with limitations of weapons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alfred W Crosby.

J. Whittaker: Extended essay, reasonably well written, mostly accurate although superficial on details. Early sections favor Calvin’s theory of throwing as critical mental development [thankfully he only hints at Calvin’s handaxe throwing nonsense], and Bingham’s idea of group enforcement by throwing as promoting social development. Ethnographic accounts of remarkably accurate stone throwing. First spears at Schöningen 400,000 years ago. Upper Paleolithic - throwing stick or atlatl, adequate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lee R Lyman. Todd L Vanpool. Michael J O’Brien.

J. Whittaker: There should be an increase in variability with introduction of new technology as makers experiment to find best combination of attributes, followed by decrease as less functional variations are discarded. Test when arrows are replacing darts, in stratig sequences in Verkamp Shelter, MO, Mummy Cave, WY, and Gatecliff Shelter, NV. Appears to work: “Diversity in dart-point classes should increase as artisans experiment with modifying dart points into effective arrow pts. Thus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philipp Roskoschinski.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Howard Holdsclaw.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J Shott.

J. Whittaker: Statistical technique applied to distribution of failure rates in samples of experimental points suggest that in small points, failure rates are related to chance breakage, but heavier points with more obtuse angles survive better because they resist chance breakage and use-life relates more to cumulative attrition. Small sample of published data (3) with numbers of throws for individual points, varying techniques and goals, and differing materials.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Franklin Fenenga.

J. Whittaker: Weighed 884 points from 16 sites in CA plus 1 NV Anasazi, 1 NB 18th C Apache, 1 ND protohistoric, 1 SD protohistoric, 1 MO Archaic, 1 MO Hopewell. Finds bimodality: less than 3.49 gm, and more than 4.5 gm (only 33 = 3.7% fall between). Suggests small point tradition reflects bow and arrow, late sites, while large point tradition is atlatl, earlier sites. Notes contradictory evidence: Browne 1938 and his own experiments with atlatl show small points, no points, large points all...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ulrich Stodiek.

J. Whittaker: (The Technology of the Upper Paleolithic Spearthrower: A Study Based on Archaeological, Ethnological, and Experimental Data). [A magnificent book, lots of information and illustrations of all kinds of atlatls, including famous Upper Paleolithic ones, and details of Stodiek’s reconstructions and experiments. From my point of view, too bad it’s in German, and now out of print. Someone should publish a full translation. See Street 1994 for information from his translation of the...