10,000 year old artifact found in Colo.
any one know any more about this?http://charter.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9GL2V100%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1011&sc_cid=homepage_newsDCC_article4
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I can't find any more information on it than the standard AP article you linked to. It would be nice to see a picture.
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Just found this photo!http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38005209/ns/technology_and_science-science/That's awesome!
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sure would have been nice if thay had a pic of it hope i get so lucky.the wife and i are headed to Yellowstone/Glacier parks in a week and half.
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check out this link for a picture and video of the artifact. Jack http://www.foxnews.com/sc...weapon-near-yellowstone/
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at the end of the article that knapper42 posted a link to it said the whole dart was 3feet. since when are atlatl darts only 3feet long?
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Pretty cool and interesting... I wonder how they determined it to be 10,000 yrs old. I'd like to read the research article on it, if there is one. Looks like this artifact news is hot off the press...
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JR- I had trouble loading the Fox article, so I didn't see the quote about it being three feet long. The MSNBC article/pic looked like it was longer than that. If it actually does only measure three...
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I'm pretty sure foreshafting is even older than 10K years. Looking at the images and one video I saw, you can distinctly see the notch where a point was hafted. I don't see a clear shot of the other...
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in the video about it that i seen they said that there was a dimple in the back end of the shaft and that is how they determined it was an atlatl dart so i dont think it would be a foreshaft,but then...
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I'm not an atlatl expert by any means, but, couldn't a foreshaft have dimple as backup if you broke/lost your dart...seems it would work well close in. Lee
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Just out of curiosity, would a person really need a shaft wrench - such as the large ivory shaft wrench from Murray Springs - to straighten a shaft like that? It does not look very thick. Why would...
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Good question Ben, but perhaps not all shafts were created equal......as in diameter. Spears, throwing or thrusting, especially if used on Paleo size mammoths and mastodons were probably much thicker...
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Very interesting I didnt have time to research so thanks to those that did and posted. I think its great that the current ice age is over and tempratures are returning to normal like our ancestors...
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Here's my stab in the dark guess: It is the back portion of a dart shaft. The notch in the one end was not for hafting a point, it was for splicing in another section of shaft, possibly a foreshaft,...
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I was reading this novel recently called People of the Nightland by W. Michael Gear Kathleen O'Neal Gear. http://www.amazon.com/People-Nightland-North-Americas-Forgotten/dp/0765314401It's a novel...
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The Murray Springs Wrench is a puzzling piece for sure. I'm not sure I agree with the accepted notion of it being a shaft straightener. Here's why. I could imagine myself using "the" Murray Springs...
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Eskimos used short atlatl darts while waiting beside a hole in the ice. What method of hunting was being used? would seem to be the question, instead of, Why the short dart? I'm betting their...
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Goose, I will reply here but am going to start a new thread on this particular subject of the shaft wrench so can discuss in more detail. First of all the the wrench is beveled on top and bottom on...
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here is a video http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/6f01e0cf192c909927c88da29caafdd8.htmlof the dart
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