Okay.

Now, the, uh, the, the word atlatl is a Nahuatl word, which is the language spoken by the group of people in central Mexico that we now call the Aztecs, even though that's not what they called themselves.

The Nahua people were a collection of people from northern Mexico about 2,000 years ago who slowly, tribe by tribe, immigrated south towards the valley of Mexico, where other civilizations, like Teotihuacan and, uh, ha- had been flourishing in that time period.

Uh, they came in and probably were using bows and arrows at the time, but atlatls were really popular in that central Mexican valley.

So they adopted the use of an atlatl.

And then what is the arrow point? What? Like, what are the, what types of materials are at, are at the tip?

So definitely to get to this specialized, you need a stone that's going to be more predictable in its flaking pattern.

So silicate-based crystalline stones, like flint or obsidian or chert, are really good for that, because they act almost like glass.