Hunting with Bow and Stone-Tipped Arrows

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Justin Scheck, Armed With Stone-Tipped Arrows, Hunters Stalk Their Inner Cave Men; Rifles Make It 'Too Easy' for Rattlin' Randy And His Pals; a Pickup Is OK, Though. Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704810504576307192623476856.html
("Interest in the stone-age lifestyle has been growing")

Note:
(a) yawner (n): "something that causes boredom <the show was a real yawner>"
www.m-w.com
(b) compound bow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_bows
(The compound bow is little-affected by changes in temperature and humidity and it gives superior accuracy, velocity, and distance in comparison to other bows. The compound bow was first developed in 1966 by Holless Wilbur Allen in Missouri, and a US patent was granted in 1969)
(c) For sucker fish, see Catostomidae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catostomidae
(d) knap (vt; of imitative origin): "to break with a quick blow; especially : to shape (as flints) by breaking off pieces"
(e) Lakota people  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_people
(part of a confederation of seven related Sioux tribes; 4 Ethnonyms)

* ethnonym: "The name of a people or ethnic group"   Houghton Mifflin
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/?s=ethnonym
* autonym (n): "A name by which a people or social group refers to itself"   Houghton Mifflin  
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/autonym
(f) mesquite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite
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