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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: RickB on September 10, 2018, 06:53:51 pm

Title: Intact Atlatl Dart
Post by: RickB on September 10, 2018, 06:53:51 pm

'Amazing' archeological find in Yukon's melting ice patches — an intact atlatl dart

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-atlatl-ice-patches-1.4809947

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/archaeologist-ice-patches-copper-arrowhead-yukon-first-nations-1.4485895

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-ice-patches-unesco-nomination-1.4459595

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arrowhead-demster-highway-archaeologist-yukon-1.4805547

Title: Re: Intact Atlatl Dart
Post by: Zuma on September 12, 2018, 01:14:42 am

Cool beans. I like reading about discoveries like these, )P(
Thanks for posting :)
Zuma

Title: Re: Intact Atlatl Dart
Post by: Hawkdancer on September 12, 2018, 10:50:34 am

Great post!  Too bad many artifacts get stuck in "private collections" and never get catalogued, studied, or or published.
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Intact Atlatl Dart
Post by: gifford on September 12, 2018, 02:10:39 pm

Great article, thanks for posting.