What is "atlatls"

Usage examples of "atlatls".

They carried spears, or darts set into atlatls, and they walked backward in a wide arc between their women and children and whatever was pursuing them.

Men grasped their atlatls (or throwing-sticks) and fitted darts to them.

For he suddenly picked up a club—some of them carried short spears and atlatls, or throwing sticks, but most of them preferred clubs—and dashed for the nearest group.

On the wings of the drive line, the women crouched, their darts nocked in the hooks of their atlatls.

She was also holding an even more ancient rifle, the kind of thing you only saw in museums next to bazookas, halberds, and atlatls under the label Primitive But Deadly.

The locals would probably be nearly as formidable with their spear-throwing atlatls.