Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch

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Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch

ScienceDaily (June 29, 2010) — To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee's recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew off a tree in a windstorm.

Nothing could be further from the truth, according to Lee, a research associate with CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research who found the atlatl dart, a spear-like hunting weapon, melting out of an ice patch high in the Rocky Mountains close to Yellowstone National Park.

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Hunting weapon 10,000 years old found in melting ice patch