throwing stick
Throwing Stick to Spear Thrower - Study of Ethnographic Artefacts and Experimentation
An evolution that might have let some traces in the features of some particular Australian Aboriginal wooden implements.
Background
Short review of the antiquity of the three main types of prehistoric projectile weaponry
The bow, an invention reflecting a new hunting environment
X-Ray Tomography and Infrared Spectrometry for the Analysis of Throwing Sticks & Boomerangs
In 2009, confronted to the study of throwing sticks collections from several museums and private collections (including more than three hundreds artefacts) and the need to evaluate their aerodynamic and functions, I developed a throwing stick classification and a methodology to measure their characteristics (Bordes, 2014). This approach is complementary to the gathering of ethnographic or archaeological contextual data to confirm or invalidate hypotheses about theirs functions.
A Gaulish Throwing Stick Discovery in Normandy: Study and Throwing Experimentations
In 2010 archaeological excavations on the pre-Roman site of Urville Nacqueville, Normandy (France) discovered a shaped unknown wooden implement. This boomerang shaped wooden artefact, dated from 120 to 80 BC, has been found in an enclosure trench of a Gaulish village close to a ritual deposit of whalebones...
