In my archaeology/anthropology classes in college, we were taught to say “projectile points” instead of “arrowheads” for basically this reason.
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Alteon@lemmy.world 23 hours agoApproximately 500,000 years ago, when someone made a tiny spear. They just didn’t know it was an arrow at the time.
I mean what is an arrow, but a much smaller spear?
corvi@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
There were those little flinger things that they’d put little speares on. Those might be considered proto arrows
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Would love to do some atlatl throwing again, not really sure if there is a way to legally do it in the park or somewhere like that though and my garden is far too short for it.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I wonder if a local archery range would let you do it. Probably have to byoa though
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I looked up a while back, the nearest NFAS club is miles away and not sure if they would allow atlatls or not.
You can get rubber blunt arrowheads though, pretty sure that could be used in public just fine as its not like its a weapon. Go for a quiet spot so that no one is really aware of it in the first place and they can’t complain.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Thanks, had forgotten “atlatl,” gonna try it in NYT Spelling Bee next time it has those letters.