Thunderbird Atlatl will be celebrating the opening of the Lake Champlain bridge connecting Crown Point, NY to Vergennes, Vt. this weekend. The bridge reopened last fall after over two years of construction!
We will be set up on the Vermont side at the Chimney Point Historical Site museum, right next to the bridge as you enter Vermont from New York.
There are events on both sides of the bridge and on the bridge this weekend. Stop by and visit!
Hesse Auction Galleries in Otego, New York will auction Prehistoric & Historic Arts of the Americas on Thursday, May 17 at 4:30 p.m.
The auction will feature Copper Tools from Shawano Co. Wisconsin; Taino Artifacts from the Caribbean; 17th C. Trade Silver; African Terracotta Objects and NYS Prehistoric Artifacts collected by Steve Petrovsky.
The copper tools are from the collection of John Jefferson of Waverly, NY, a friend and coworker who works with Thunderbird Atlatl.
There will be a preview at 2:30PM Hesse Auction Gallery is located at 350 Main St, Otego NY 13825
Telephone & Fax: 607-988-2523
Make Magazine published an article last fall in its Kit issue about our atlatl kits and how they worked. They asked us if they could review the kits last summer for the article. The review appeared in the magazine’s Siege and Ballistics Kits section.
Here’s a You Tube video showing our Kanakadea kit being used. The section about the our atlatl kit starts at about 4:58 if you don’t want to watch the entire video!
Here is a link to an interesting article by Dr. John c. Whittaker, Ph.D, You can check the article out here. by Dr. John C. Whittaker, Ph.D, about the atlatl’s place connecting the academic world of archaeology with the public in a fun and fascinating way. This article takes the atlatl out of the museum closet and places it in the hands of those who see it as a recreational implement.
John is a teacher at Grinnell College and also the coach of the Raging Cows, the world’s first collegiate atlatl team. I enjoyed this article because I was pleased to have supplied John with a recreational atlatl and a set of darts many years ago when I first met him at the Stone Tool Craftsman Show at Letchworth State Park in upstate New York. I think I lit an ember at that time that John blew into a raging flame. ~Bob Berg
The Atlatl made it to the Top Shot program on March 20 on the History Channel! The show used our favorite primitive weapon for an elimination round. The show did a nice job of presenting the atlatl to the contestants and setting up the target range.
The contestant who won the elimination round had never seen the atlatl before but managed to figure out a technique that won the round for him!
We know the atlatl is a lot of fun in competition so it was nice to see the show finally using it for a competition. Next time, maybe they can try the Aztec Atlatl Battle game or try some of the targets used at Silver Springs State Park for a little variety!
In the photo below, Silver River State Park set up a great atlatl range with a few different creatures earlier this month!
