{"id":1626,"date":"2015-03-07T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2015-03-08T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:16:49","slug":"before-the-fall-when-they-wrote-it-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/before-the-fall-when-they-wrote-it-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"atlatl11a\"<\/a>Finally got a chance to try out my prized Christmas gift from Kari. My hand made Atlatl<\/a>. I discovered Robert Edwards of Alberta Atlatl<\/a> through twitter. He actually makes Atlatls such as prehistoric man used to throw spears with enough velocity to kill a wooly mammoth.<\/p>\n

I didn’t realize that even here in California there are records of Atlatl use. A Pinto culture site<\/a> is located near Little Lake, California where there are petroglyphs depicting atlatl use from 4000-500o years ago. I think this rock may be an Atlatl instruction manual:<\/p>\n

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I was impressed by Robert’s web site and the fact that he had actually taken a whitetail deer with one. I’ve been so busy with launching our web site at work today was my first opportunity to give it a try. The atlatl is hand made from purpleheart wood and the darts are hand fletched with turkey feathers. Robert even included an extra dart with a traditional knapped obsidian point. My yard isn’t big enough for this so I took my old deer target down to the elementary school thinking I would have some privacy. Of course the Sheriff showed up coincidentally as I was setting the deer up so I had a nice chat educating him on the hunting practice of prehistoric man. He was sufficiently convinced I wasn’t so insane to be danger to myself or others and finally leaves with a\u00a0 ‘well I better get out of your way then’<\/p>\n

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After about 45 minutes of near misses I finally put one in a leg. I managed only once to get 3 darts into the target, all a little too far back. And finally from 20 yards I managed to put one in the middle and declare success. I doubt I could get close enough to a deer and have him let me wind up and throw one his way.\u00a0 Of course wooly mammoths probably weren’t that concerned with us getting close …at first. Glad my dinner doesn’t depend on my ability to use one of these. It’s fun though to try it out and know this is what our ancestors used to hunt even before the bow and arrow.<\/p>\n

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CAVES OF ALTAMIRA <\/em><\/p>\n

I recall when I was small <\/em>
\nHow I spent my days alone <\/em>
\nThe busy world was not for me <\/em>
\nSo I went and found my own <\/em>
\nI would climb the garden wall <\/em>
\nWith a candle in my hand <\/em>
\nI’d hide inside a hall of rock and sand <\/em>
\nOn the stone an ancient hand <\/em>
\nIn a faded yellow-green <\/em>
\nMade alive a worldly wonder <\/em>
\nOften told but never seen <\/em>
\nNow and ever bound to labor <\/em>
\nOn the sea and in the sky <\/em>
\nEvery man and beast appeared <\/em>
\nA friend as real as I <\/em><\/p>\n

CHORUS:<\/em>
\nBefore the fall when they wrote it on the wall <\/em>
\nWhen there wasn’t even any Hollywood <\/em>
\nThey heard the call <\/em>
\nAnd they wrote it on the wall <\/em>
\nFor you and me we understood <\/em><\/p>\n

Can it be this sad design <\/em>
\nCould be the very same <\/em>
\nA wooly man without a face <\/em>
\nAnd a beast without a name <\/em>
\nNothin’ here but history <\/em>
\nCan you see what has been done <\/em>
\nMemory rush over me <\/em>
\nNow I step into the sun<\/em><\/p>\n

-Steely Dan, The Royal Scam album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally got a chance to try out my prized Christmas gift from Kari. My hand made Atlatl. I discovered Robert Edwards of Alberta Atlatl through twitter. He actually makes Atlatls such as prehistoric man used to throw spears with enough velocity to kill a wooly mammoth. I didn’t realize that even here in California there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,5],"tags":[34,82],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archery-2","category-hunting","tag-archery","tag-atlatl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}