Palaeolithic (Temporal Keyword)

101-125 (1,451 Records)

The Atlatl Assessed: A Review of Recent Anthropological Approaches to Prehistoric North American Weaponry (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce D Dickson.

J. Whittaker: [Thorough review, good references, some mistakes.] Seems to accept theory of lengthened contact with spear rather than lever or spring. Most experiments show weights are no help. Atlatl survived for advantages in aquatic hunting and warfare.

Atlatl dynamics (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Baugh.

J. Whittaker: Video digitizer and mathematical model used to predict velocity of darts under given conditions. - horizontal force, wrist torque, mass of hand, radius of gyration, weight of dart, length of atlatl. Simpler model than Cotterell and Kamminga 1989. Hand-thrown dart has short lever action (hand+wrist) while atlatl is much longer lever. Conclusions: Atlatl length (between .3-.75m) has little effect on velocity, although optimum length was .45 m. Adding a weight to atlatl can increase...

Atlatl Flexibility Analysis Via Computer Modeling (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dick Baugh.

J. Whittaker: “Extravagant claims made for increased dart velocity with flexible atlatl.” Uses computer model to show that to get 11% increase in kinetic energy, need to deflect the tip of the atlatl ca. 10 cm. [Possible with some very flexible atlatls.]

Atlatl Functions, Fancy, Flex, and Fun. A Reply to Howard (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B Butler.

J. Whittaker: Reiterates rotational view, suggests experiment with dart held parallel to shaft to prove impossibility [but doesn't do it], mentions possibility of flexing atlatl analogue to spinning rod.

Atlatl Weight Function (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ray Strischek.

J. Whittaker: [Useful article], considers many variables in accuracy and distance: theories of atlatl weight functions, body motion and casting styles, atlatl grip styles, problems affecting throws. Experiments with lots of variables [not very systematically], concludes: Heavy weights no good, they slow throw, damage arm. Moderate weights increase accuracy by helping prevent spur end of atlatl from being pushed to side as dart flexes. On light flexible atlatls, small weight may increase flex...

The Atlatl, or Throwing Stick, A Recent Study of Atlatls in Use with Darts of Various Sizes (1948)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Malcolm W Hill.

J. Whittaker: Importance of different grips. Could use one hand to hold back dart and add flexing force to throw if atlatl flexible, “grasping the handle of the atlatl with the left hand and the spur end, including the rear end of the dart, with the right hand.” Probably influenced invention of bow. He then says “sweeping movement is necessary to propel the dart.” But he claims the 2-hand method works in cramped quarters to “propel the dart with the wrist alone 40-50 feet.” [Absurd – I can’t...

Att rekonstruera förhistorien utan att någon slår sig (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frands Herschend.

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Att äta som en stenåldersjägare (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomas Johansson. Tomas Johansson.

Attributes of Experimental Folsom Points and Channel Flakes (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Solly J B Sollberger. Leland W Patterson.

Au retour de la chasse… Observations expérimentales concernant les impacts sur le gibier, la récupération et la maintenance des projectiles dans le Magdalénien supérieur d’Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) (2003)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Letourneaux. Jean-Marc Pétillon.

Aurignacien: das ältere Jungpaläolithikum in Mittel- und Osteuropa (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joachim Hahn.

Australian Western Desert lithic technology: an ethnoarchaeological study of variability in material culture (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Hayden.

Autsch! Prähistorische Tätowiertechniken im Experiment (2010)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holger Junker.

Back to the Stone Age: How to Identify and Use the Best Stone Knives (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Errett Callahan.

Bad Buchau: Federsee-Museum. Dörfer im Moor (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralf Baumeister.

Bajuwaren im Baltikum - Erfahrungsbericht Kernave 2004 (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Armin May.

The Bannerstone: A Continuing Enigma (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorenz W Bruechert.

J. Whittaker: Atlatl weight theory (Webb) is most accepted, but experiments show doesn't add force or velocity. Baer, Blair suggest "spinning stone" [= spindle whorl] from ethnographic analogy, a find with short slate shaft in bannerstone hole [but only a few wild fibers are suitable for spinning, and associations documented by Webb and others suggest atlatl connection].

Bannerstones and How They Relate to the Atlatl (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bob Berg.

J. Whittaker: Part of a kit of tools used to make and repair atlatl darts - bannerstone is spindle weight to spin string and taper dart shafts. Experiments to show it works - need cordage for whipping dart shafts and attach fletching. Used as flywheel on bowdrill arrangement to spin shaft while using abrasive in leather to round and smooth dart shaft. Bannerstones are designed to spin, and holes range from too large to too small for atlatl, and too heavy. [These last are unsupported assumptions...

Bannerstones of the North American Indian (1939)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron W Knoblock.

J. Whittaker: Reprinted 1965? mostly plates, a few color. Primarily typology + illustrations, of perforated bannerstones only. Discusses manufacture, good illustrations of unfinished specimens, some experiments in drilling. Prefers ceremonial or ornamental use theory, tribal symbols, but includes some others, e.g. section on Indian Knoll and Moore's theory that antler hooks were netting needles, bannerstones were mesh spacers, which he likes. Also letter from Webb arguing for atlatl part...

Bannerstones of the North American Indian (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron W Knoblock.

J. Whittaker: Reprinted 1965? Original 1939. Mostly plates, a few color. Primarily typology + illustrations, of perforated bannerstones only. Discusses manufacture, good illustrations of unfinished specimens, some experiments in drilling. Prefers ceremonial or ornamental use theory, tribal symbols, but includes some others, e.g. section on Indian Knoll and Moore's theory that antler hooks were netting needles, bannerstones were mesh spacers, which he likes. Also letter from Webb arguing for...

Bannerstones: A Historical Overview (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary L Kwas.

J. Whittaker: Name “bannerstone” assumed ritual or social function. Moorehead 1917 first systematic classification: lunate, bilunate, bipennate, geniculate. Knoblock 1939 major work, base for typology although his evolutionary scheme has no empirical support. Researchers tend to ignore bannerstones or inadequately describe. Functional theories: 1) Ceremonial staff. NC find of 3 mounted on stone shafts a foot long (Baer 1921), and wear on only part of hole (Knoblock 1939), also fancy material,...

Bannerstones: Two Cents More (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kermit Wilkison.

J. Whittaker: Anecdotes, metal weights taped on for experiments, weights behind fletching work well.

Barn, finns dom? (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kjel Knutsson.

The basics of biface knapping in the Eastern Fluted Tradition: a manual for flintknappers and lithic analysts (preface) (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Errett Callahan. David Wescott.

Basketmaker II Horn Flakers and Dart Point Production: Technological Change at the Agricultural Transition (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phil R Geib.

J. Whittaker: Experiments and microwear show that horn rods “gaming pieces” in Sand Dune Cave cache are actually knapping punches for manufacture of dart points. SDC cache included hafted and unfinished points.

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