When four amateur cavers climbed over 1,300 feet through narrow crevasses and low-clearance passages into a remote cave in central Mexico in 2023, they came across something that also litters ...

A new study led by Archaeologist Michelle Bebber, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Kent State University’s Department of Anthropology, has demonstrated that the atlatl (i.e. spear thrower) functions ...

DECORAH, Iowa (AP) -- A competition involving a primitive weapon used for hunting and warfare is scheduled for Saturday at Luther College. The school's Anthropology Lab will host the first Decorah ...

Although many prehistoric points have been recovered in Wyoming, only two actual atlatls have been found. In 1952, George Frison, who would later become the first state archaeologist, found two ...