Atlatl Cave

During the 1970s, archaeologists discovered corn, beans, squash, a yucca fiber sandal, a variety of different kinds of miniature beads made from juniper,^[2] basketry, juniperus monoserma and juniperus scopulorum twigs, pseudotsuga menziesii wood fragments,^[3] and fabric made from rabbit fur in the cave.^[4] The breaths of the Archaic-age maize pollen grains are significantly larger than Puebloan and present maize pollen.^[5] They also found part of an atlatl, or spear-thrower, from which the site got its name. Unlike most Archaic sites in the canyon, the shelter protected the organic materials inside, which allowed for accurate radiocarbon dating.^[6]