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The paper does not appear to distinguish between 'darts' used with atlatl throwing sticks, and arrows used with bows. Darts were used before bows.

(projectile point design is difficult; you can't haft archaic and yeet it too)

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What do you mean, can't haft and yeet too, is that about weight?

As a non-native speaker, you have to sound it out. It's a pun of "can't have your cake and eat it".

HN has been overrun with puns and attempts at humour in the past few years, while substantive comments have declined imho. But that's just the way it is.

Ha, OK. The darts seem designed to separate from the fletched part of the shaft, like a two-stage rocket, so the pun sounded confusingly truthful, as in they're not quite hafted.

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