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Definition of Atlatls
1. atlatl [n] - See also: atlatl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atlatls
Literary usage of Atlatls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"They carry a sort of boomerang in addition to spears and atlatls. In the outer
chamber was a great stone table or altar, supported by fifteen caryatid ..."
2. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"The sculptures of Chichen Itza frequently depict these clubs, usually in the
hands of warriors who also carry atlatls and atlatl spears. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"... I have shown that the true key dwellers were not possessed of the bow at :.ll.
but used atlatls and throwing arrows instead, and were not unacquainted, ..."
4. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"Bunt points were not found by us, unless the specimen in figure 92 is to be
regarded as such. Pepper, however, shows several in his paper on the atlatls ..."
5. Iowa Journal of History by State Historical Society of Iowa (1903)
"... Two Ancient Mexican atlatls, by DI Bushnell; Some Virginia Indian Words, by
William R. Gerard; Traditions of Precolumbian Landings on the Western Coast ..."
6. The Lienzo of Tulancingo, Oaxaca: An Introductory Study of a Ninth Painted by Ross Parmenter (1993)
"... northern people used bows, whereas the more southern people catapulted their
equivalents of arrows (short lances) with throwing sticks known as atlatls. ..."
7. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"The exact counterparts of the atlatls, they hold, are visible on the so-called "
Stone of Tizoc " in the city of Mexico. Sculptured on the wall opposite the ..."
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