What is an atlatl?
Speaker: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
What is an atlatl in Mesoamerica?
This video focuses on what an atlatl, or spearthrower, is in Mesoamerica. To introduce this important weapon technology and how artists showed it, we look to the Toltec Atlantids at Tula in Central Mexico and a wooden atlatl made by the Mixtecs.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The Atlantids at Tula and their iconography
0:39 What is an atlatl?
1:31 A Mixtec atlatl made of wood
1:58 Decoration on the atlatl
This video is perfect for anyone interested in:
The Mixtecs or the Toltecs
Mesoamerica
Warfare and Warriors
Mesoamerican symbols
Indigenous Artistic Traditions
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