• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Approximately 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?

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      1 day ago

      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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      1 day ago

      There were those little flinger things that they’d put little spears on. Those might be considered proto arrows.

      Yeah, atlatls had fletched arrows

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        1 day 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.

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            12 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.