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Word: atlatl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covered with individual husks. Some cobs showed tooth marks; they had apparently been eaten as modern people eat sweet corn. MacNeish estimates that agriculture provided about 4% of the food at this period (4,000 years ago). The rest were wild plants and animals, which were hunted with the atlatl or spear-throwing stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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