View YouTube videos of Atlatl the weapon used in The Ruin by Kenneth Fenter

I checked out the Trailer for The Ruin that I posted on YouTube this summer (Ruin Trailer) and found that quite a few videos of the atlatl are linked to the Trailer. It was really interesting to watch them. One was on the history of the atlatl going back to the Aztec. The name "atlatl" comes from the Aztec. In The Ruin, Cliff the main character makes an atlatl, spear thrower, from a pamphlet he has picked up at Mesa Verde National Park. He learns to use the weapon to hunt rabbits and even brings down a deer with it.

There are fine examples of the atlatl that the Ancestral Puebloans used in the museum at Mesa Verde National Park and at the Anasazi Cultural Center at Dolores Colorado.



Atlatl at the museum at Mesa Verde National Park.



Atlatl in a case at the Anasazi Cultural Center at Dolores Colorado.

Kenneth Fenter