Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America

Radiocarbon results suggest a single origin and rapid diffusion through cultural transition networks.

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Arrows are the kind of technology that would have just made everyone who encountered it immediately go “I need me some of that good shit.” The leap in effectiveness and risk reduction to the hunter is so obvious and significant that it’d be incredibly desirable.

 

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In this context, darts are what you throw with an atlatl, not what you throw while drinking in a pub.

I read that as axolotl not atlatl, and for a moment I had a mental image of cute little pink amphibians playing darts in a pub, quaffing tiny pints of beer, and man my brain is a weird place to live sometimes