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Around 20,000 BP, Homo sapiens perfected an elegant fix for the limits of human muscle: the spear‑thrower, or atlatl. A simple grooved stick about 60 cm long, it cradled a light, fletched dart nearly three meters in length. When hunters snapped their wrists, the atlatl acted like a spring lever, storing kinetic energy and releasing it in a whip‑crack that could push the dart past 150 kph. Ethnographic tests with modern replicas reveal penetration equal to a .45‑caliber pistol at short range. Tha

Our First Nations ancestors hunted with atlatl's — sophisticated spears that could bring down a caribou from twenty metres away. Watch Secrets From the Ice Documentary Sunday at 8 on CBC or online now: http://bit.ly/2AwzhTd | CBC Docs