Timeline for Spear-thrower that doubles as a hatchet?
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| Sep 29, 2022 at 18:01 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | What could 'use the atlatl (thrower) as a smaller weapon in itself' actually mean, please? I guess you're not hoping to swing the atlatl (thrower) as a club but what are you suggesting? | |
| Sep 17, 2022 at 0:16 | comment | added | Willk | I am wondering about the physics of a weight attached to the distal end of the atlatl. Could that help? | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 21:19 | answer | added | S P Arif Sahari Wibowo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 16:18 | answer | added | Robert Rapplean | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 15:31 | answer | added | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 1:21 | answer | added | Perkins | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 0:34 | answer | added | DWKraus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 21:30 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 15, 2022 at 14:49 | comment | added | Mark Price | @AlexP sorry- poor phrasing. I was mostly thinking of the Aztec, who would launch their atlatl darts at range and then get out a club for melee combat, and was trying to fill both roles simultaneously. It makes less sense now that I'm thinking about it though. | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 13:50 | comment | added | AlexP | Just some notes. (1) The javelins or darts thrown with the help of a spear-thrower are by definition ranged weapons, not melee weapons. Saying that the "civilizations that used the atlatl usually switched to a different melee weapon" is not even wrong. (2) In the classical Greco-Roman world they used a very different kind of device instead of an atlatl, called amentum (in Latin) or ankylê (in Greek), which increased accuracy at the expense of a somewhat reduced mechanical advantage. (3) An atlatl is basically a short light stick; not much weapon. | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 13:31 | answer | added | ratchet freak | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 13:26 | history | asked | Mark Price | CC BY-SA 4.0 |