[Aztlan] Aztec-Digging for the Truth

[Katherine Reece]

The spears thrown by the atlatl looked more like large arrows in
  my opinion. Like Justin and others pointed out, this may have led the Europeans to
  describe them as such.


The Digging for the Truth shows have been rather good, or at least better than the usual way archaeological or ancient history programs are depicted with all the mysterious music playing in the background and dodgy information given out.  

On the point of the Europeans calling the atlatl darts "arrows" ...they messed up the naming of things often .. in South America they called llamas "sheep"

Kat Reece

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