Radiocarbon dating suggests the spear-thrower is older than the foreshafts for the darts, but Schroeder thinks that may be because older wood was used to make it — a common issue with ancient ...

The ancient weapons include notched ends for the darts of a spear thrower, or atlatl; the foreshafts of darts that had stone tips; and the foreshafts of darts that were probably poisoned.

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... With an eight-foot long spear, a short sword, and a bronze-covered shield, the total weight of their ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... And javelin: athletes hurl a wooden spear as far as they can. Fun if you like that kind of thing.

To sum up, Billows sees a literate, Hoplite, democratic culture developed in the polis, where a mass audience would participate in the “high culture” we associate with the Ancient Greece of Plato, ...

By Livia Albeck-Ripka The 6,500-year-old hunting kit contained pieces of a spear thrower and a boomerang ... shed light on the complex ways in which ancient humans hunted for their prey and ...