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    • A note about the artifact trade
  • Specifics
    • Atlatl Flex Follows Form in Reproduced Basketmaker Systems
    • Atlatl Weights: A function of preference for specific gripping and throwing techniques
    • Flexible Atlatls Caught in Slow Motion (with video)
    • Function of added weights in throwing dynamics of the “Floating grip”: Added weight as modifier of effective dart-spine
  • Artifacts and Replications
    • Broken Roof Cave, Cist 1, Arizona
    • Ceremonial Cave, Texas
    • Chavez Cave, New Mexico
    • Comparison of spur shapes – multiple sites
    • Hogup Cave, Utah
    • Huck Atlatl, Utah?
    • Hyde Atlatl, Grand Gulch, Utah
    • Kinboko Canyon, Burial Cave 1, Cist 10, Arizona
    • Kramer Cave (site 26WA196), Nevada
    • Nicolarson Cave (site NV-Wa-197), Nevada
    • Ozark Bluff-dweller, Alred Shelter, Arkansas
    • Spring Creek Cave (site 48WA1), Wyoming
    • Tsegi Canyon Cave 2 or 3, Arizona
    • Tularosa Cave, New Mexico
    • White Dog Cave, Arizona
  • Resources
    • Atlatls and darts of the Harvard Peabody Museum, dimensions
    • Books and publications by Justin
    • Distribution of Atlatls in North America
    • North American Atlatl Artifact List and Dart Mainshaft Materials List
    • Publications by Devin
    • Slow-Motion Atlatl Videos
    • Whittaker’s Annotated Atlatl Bibliography, 2019
  • Modern Sport
    • Fishing with Traditional Atlatl equipment
    • Takedown Darts: Modern use and ancient context
    • The Persistence Hunter’s Challenge; reviving an ancient atlatl hunting technique
  • How-tos
    • Basketmakeratlatl.com instructional videos
    • Making a Basketmaker Atlatl Dart Using Modern Tools
    • Making a Rivercane Atlatl Dart
    • Making a Simple Cross-peg Atlatl
    • Making a willow dart with stone tools (video)
    • Making California Stone Atlatl Spurs
    • Ray’s Lumber Yard Basket Maker Darts
    • The art and science of willow coppicing
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Publications by Devin

2015 Master’s Thesis
The Ballistics of Archaic North American Atlatls and Darts
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Pettigrew, Devin B., John Whittaker, Justin Garnett and Patrick Hashman
2015 How atlatl darts behave: Beveled points and the relevance of controlled experiments. American Antiquity 80(3):590-601.
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Pettigrew, Devin B.

2018 Ozark atlatls and darts: Old finds and new interpretations. Plains Anthropologist 63(245):4-25.

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