[Archers] Tips was: Re: Safety advice on atal-atals andcrossbows

[John Atkins]

Hey, per this conversation, can we add atlatl darts to the fletchers
guild?  As Enoguy says, they are just really big arrows.

cog

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Alexandratos, Jerry (NIH/NCI) [E]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 7:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Archers] Tips was: Re: Safety advice on atal-atals
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The Aztecs were a flint and obsidian based culture, as I recall, using
both in tools and weapons.  Oddly enough, they knew about the wheel but
did not use it for transportation.  The speculation is that they did not
have large enough animals to pull carts.  Not a historian, so take all
of this with a grain of... maize.  Is this far enough off topic?  Okay,
they did use the bow and arrow, so the denizens of this list may
consider them "civilized".  

Jerry/Gerasimos


From: barysears [barysears at verizon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 7:05 PM
To: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Archers] Tips was: Re: Safety advice on atal-atals
andcrossbows

I have to wonder about the flint-knapping.  Aztecs used atlatls against
Cortez - are they a flint-knapping culture?

On 6/30/2010 4:32 PM, John Atkins wrote:
> That would be my guess.  Either that or perhaps just heat hardened 
> wood although the atlatl really is a weapon of the flint knapping 
> cultures.
>
> cog
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