[Archers] Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 142, Issue 2

[Frank Felix]

I've been doing a lot of research on atlatls recently. Australia is one of the places where they were recently used, along with the arctic and Papua New Guinea, but there are still two places in the world where atlatls are still being used today and not by re-creationists! There are some remote tribes in Brazil that use atlatls for ceremonial war games for their young men and atlatls are still being used today around Lake Metaxa in Mexico for fishing.

There are many different shapes of atlatls in and around Australia. The paddle shape is only one of them, but I think it is the most interesting. It's like the world's first multi-tool. There are also long flat ones, short narrow ones, long sticks with tiny hooks, long skinny ones that cut through the air, and more.

I'm going to be teaching a class at Pennsic called Atlatls of the World. It will be held up at the thrown weapons range (the atlatl range) where we can try out some of the atlatls I have re-created for the class.

YIS,

Kryss Kostarev

Michael <michaelstuart at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm currently in eastern Lochac for work for a few days, so sadly, no archery for me at the moment, though it is an awesome place to visit despite this drawback. Also (archery content) it's the location of the most recent historic usage of the atl-atl anywhere in the world, except for possibly in the Arctic, where its use also persisted into the post-Society time frame. 
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>My present location was historically the land of the Eora people, from whose language we get the word woomera, the term now used more generically for all aboriginal atl-atls that originally would have had their own names in each language. The woomera is shaped more like a long flat bowl than a straight stick, but it has the same hook to hold the butt of the dart that our atl-atls do. The bowl shape could double as a way to transport damp foodstuffs, and the woomera apparently sometimes also had a sharp stone edge affixed to one end with tree resin for use as a cutting implement, so these were a multipurpose tool.
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>Just curious about what everyone is up to.  What have you been shooting lately?  What's happening at your events?
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>I just got done with the Return to Crecy event this past weekend.  It was a lot of fun. All archery points went toward the side of the English and the Equestrian points went to the French.  We had 33 people shoot over the course of the day, with about 5 or 6 of those being newcomers.
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>It was a lot of fun.  Miles de awesome won the prize shoot, and also had the highest accumulation of war points. (But who's counting.)
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