Thumbnail Image
Publication

What's the Point: The Transition from Dart to Bow in the Eastern Plains

Tarabek, Julianne Elizabeth
Citations
Altmetric:
Abstract
Despite many years of research by professional and avocational archaeologists, many questions still surround the transition between the atlatl and dart and bow and arrow in North America. This paper documents the cadence and nature of this change in the cultural and environmental context of northeastern Kansas. I use David Hurst Thomas (1978) and Michael Shott's (1997) formulas to metrically classify points from 10 sites, grouping these into three temporal periods and compare the use of technologies within and across these time scales. This indicates the two technologies co-occurred during the entire transitional period.
Description
Date
2013-05-31
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
University of Kansas
Collections
Theses
Anthropology Dissertations and Theses
Show all metadata
Files
Thumbnail Image
Tarabek_ku_0099M_12602_DATA_1.pdf
Adobe PDF, 1.96 MB
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Keywords
Archaeology, Atlatl, Bow, Technology, Transition
Citation
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/11706
DOI
Embedded videos