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What is an "altatl" in Mayan culture?

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The word "atlatl" is actually of Nahua origin (that's another great culture of Pre-Columbian MesoAmerica)- and it's more typically a concept assotiated with the Aztecs.

Nonetheless, the Mayas used it too (the tool, not the word), and atlatl simply means a "spear"- it was a war tool, although most of the fighting was done in close-range, and not by throwing.
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