Re: Date limit set on first Americans

"res6l2wx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Bob Keeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>  > >
> > Let me offer a few references. . . . 8-)
> >
> > As for spear throwers being used by seafareing people and from boats. . .
>  .
> >
> > http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/term.htm
> >
> > You have the Inuit!  As far as using an atlatl from a boat, consider this.
>  .
> > . . have you ever tried to throw something while sitting in a small round
> > bottomed boat (like a canoe or kayak)?  If you throw to either side with a
> > great deal of force its quite probable you are in the way for a swim.
>  Such
> > a swim in Arctic waters could well be fatal in a very few minutes, so not
> > something to be taken lightly.
> 
> Can't quarrel with most of your remarks, and will check the URL,but if you
> roll over in a kayak, you just roll back up.  But it probably would be wise
> to turn the kayak - never used one of the ocean going ones.
>      Regards
>         John GW

 I go out in an ocean kayak three times a week, have for a number of
years and haven't rolled it yet. One can cast, throw things, reel in
large fish, without tipping it. The extreme fishing sport these days
is hooking two hundred pound thresher sharks in a twelve foot, forty
pound kayak. So I'm sure using the atlatl wouldn't be a problem.
Duncan