What is with this new atlatl crap? When I was a boy, when I wanted to throw a spear, I THREW A SPEAR. Kids today are weak.

Unnecessary tech. Just one more thing to break. They will change the knock in a few years so I have to get a new one.

Damn planned obsolescence.

I heard some kids at the watering hole talking about hunting with a bow.

What they are going to give that mammoth a new hair doo. The hell ??

Okay, protoboomer

A SPEAR

Hypocrite.

One stick, two sticks, who cares. If you want to throw a rock, throw it with your hand, as nature intended.

Tying it to the end of a stick is as much cheating as using another stick to make your arm longer.

Real rock throwers don't need sticks. If your arms aren't long enough that you're dragging your knuckles on the ground like our forefathers you're as weak as the kids you're criticising.

All they know is Magdalenian, use leverage, twerk, be hominidosexual, eat grain & lie

All that modern tech, then I bet a grey-hair from Göbekli Tepe shows up in reed sandals and takes the silver with a throwing spear that doesn't even have fletching.

They see my atlatl, they hatin’

I thought those were the giant walking things on Hoth

I just see me stabbing either myself or the ground right in front of me with this thing.

Biggest rock is best rock

"When i joined the corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy spears! We had sticks!"

You call that a spear? That's barely long enough to be an arrow...

The odds of me running into this while listening to the Brotherband Chronicles book 2, where one of the characters use this same device, is astounding to me. I didn’t know what it was, but now I do. Thank you for sharing! On to book 3!