Archaeologists in Texas have discovered a cache of ancient ... The weapons are about 6,500 years old and were unearthed in a ...

Some of the tools contained in the hunting kit include four dart nock ends that fit against an ancient spear ... the pieces of the atlatl were found. Devin Pettigrew, a weapons expert and CBBS ...

Archaeologists at Big Bend National Park made a fascinating discovery of possibly the oldest ancient weapons in North America ...

“Deep inside a remote cave in Big Bend, archeologists have uncovered a pristine hunting kit — potentially the oldest intact weapon ... an ancient spear-throwing device called an atlatl ...

Photo courtesy of Center for Big Bend Studies An ancient ... weapon until around 2,000 years ago when societies were becoming more settled, larger and complex, the bow finally supplanted the ...

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.