Atlatl Painting: WikiCommons

Ancient Technology: Atlatl, Super Weapon

[pick your favorite pronunciation: at-lah-t’l, ott-lottle,  or atl-atl from the Aztec] It’s been 200 years since your family returned to dry land and started repopulating the world. The dragons, elephants, and other really big animals have been busy having babies as well. Your clan is travelling to some pleasantly lonely location where you plan to settle Read more…

Human Language

I was going through my collection of idea starters and saw quite a number on the subject of language.  I haven’t covered this topic at all except for last week’s mention of the ancient Chinese writing on the Olmec figures from Mexico, so we’ll see how much I can cover today! Read more…

Mossy Rock

Sir Isaac Newton, the Historian

I was looking around to see how far back the timelines of the earliest Post-Flood civilizations can be accurately traced and ran into this book: The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended by Sir Isaac Newton, first published in 1728 (one year after his death). Turns out Newton was very interested in Read more…