December
10
/ 2019
Researchers believe that some weapons found at the Par-Tee site in Oregon, USA were purposely made for little hands to train children and youth life skills. These weapons for children were carefully crafted to teach the future adults how to survive. The researchers have found a variety of sizes of atlatls (ancient dart-throwing weapons) among the artifacts recovered from the site inhabited by Native Americans from 100-800 AD. They believe that the weapons were made to specifically fit the hands of the users. It seems that some of the users were children. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"68134","attributes":{"alt":"A reconstruction of a Par-Tee atlatl. (illustration by Emily Hull)","class":"media-image","height":"192","style":"width: 610px; height: 192px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] A reconstruction of a Par-Tee atlatl. (illustration by Emily Hull) Crafting Mini Weapons to Teach
