Post your stone age weapons here!

To tell the truth my Stone Age weapon collection exceeds that of my edged weapon collection in numbers. Here’s only one of many of varying sizes. I believe it to be a hand held skull breaker but would like any other opinions.

At any rate you gave me a cause to use my new camera that I received only this morning. The LCD view finder in the other died and evidently that model is history. I did find a used one on Amazon of the same type that appears to be refurbished although they didn’t say that. The price was good, and I already knew how it worked, so no hours of reading the manual and testing.  All that was needed was to move over the already formatted memory card, batteries, wrist strap and set the time/date. The case and tripod were already on hand. I hate learning a new piece of equipment.

As a matter of fact I do have some smaller ones and thinking on it that was probably their intent. Thanks, I now know.

MA in my area doesn’t seem big, unfortunately. And the people don’t seem to take much interest in history and some of their lack of knowledge surprises me. For an example I heard that Costa Rica was part of Mexico at one time from what I considered an unreliable source and asked several ticos including my instructor at school and always got a negative answer and at times strange looks. I read two history books and nothing was mentioned. I found the answer through Wikipedia and Costa Rica was indeed part of the Mexican Empire. This was a short lived government and involved the two countries immediately of the session from Spain, both occurring in 1821. I do wish the ticos were more history orientated as I would like to attend ren fairs, join a HEMA group, etc.

Here are some of mine:

Australian, 2 clubs:

The smaller club is recent (late 20th century); the larger club is antique.

New Guinea, black palm bow and arrows:

Arrows are bamboo shafts with a mix of hardwood heads (long needle-like points) and bamboo heads (broader blades). The arrows are quite long, and unfletched. Don't have a string for this bow. Was probably a strip of bamboo - the un-nocked arrows would have sat against the flat side of the strip.

New Guinea, sword club:

Massim (eastern New Guinea). Recently made.

New Guinea, dagger:

Cassowary bone, late 20th century.

Melanesia, clubs:

The long one is a classic Fijian-style gunstock club, recently made (late 20th century, probably carved in Australia). The other gunstock club above it is probably late 20th century, made in Fiji for tourist sale. The bottom left club is a cast plastic replica of an original.

China, polished axe head:

Modern replica.

Missing: slings (might photograph some in the near future), some touristy clubs, some modern knapped stone spear points, boomerangs (my boomerangs are in my office), and some more bows from New Guinea (also in my office).

Anyone have or use an Atlatl?  What an ingenious thing for man to have come up with so long ago. 

I have a woomera, which is an Australian atlatl (which also missed out on being photographed due to being in my office).

I have playing with one on my list of student projects for next semester - I'll see if anybody picks it. (They'd mostly play with a easier modern version:

rather than a woomera, but the principle is the same.)

My younger brother's friend made a quick and cheap atlatl. I gave it a try, and was very impressed with how much it improved range and power. We were just using light sticks as "darts", but it was a significant upgrade from just using arm power.

LOL this forum is censoring the word h.o.m.o but not the word erectus.

Solutrean blades were very beautiful indeed! D.C. Waldorf is one of the few people who know how to make such complicated blades.