1. What advantages would a hunter using this throwing stick with his spears have over a hunter using only the spear?
Let's think about how this technology might have caused changes in the society of the groups who used the Atlatl.
2. How would this technology effect the native American's ability to acquire food?
3. How would this effect the animal population?
4. Once a food source was depleted (hunted animals), how might the group of hunters change their lifestyle?
We have been looking at how the technology of the Atlatl affected the society, but what about the role of science?
5. How does the Atlatl relate to any simple machines you may have studied earlier?
6. Do you think that the Native Americans who used this device knew the science concepts that explain how a lever works?