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For comparison purposes from left to right - a five foot long
atlatl dart; a six foot long atlatl dart; an atlatl; |
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a javelin; a Kwan dao, a Wudang (crown height) staff; a hook
spear and an eyebrow height staff. |
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It is unclear when or where spears and atlatls entered the human
toolkit. The earliest preserved spears |
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so far are from
Schöningen in Germany and are about 400,000 years old
(above). It would not be surprising if |
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spears for thrusting and for throwing
had been made and used for ten times that many years. |
