Comment on 8999 BC

whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wonder if a local archery range would let you do it. Probably have to byoa though

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks, had forgotten “atlatl,” gonna try it in NYT Spelling Bee next time it has those letters.

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  • corvi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  About 300 years after the invention of the bow, which is crazy.

  It meant that the value of archers was really low from a military point of view. Those nerds were useless.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  About three years into Youtube. Everybody missed this Easter egg.

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