Bolas used by ancient Inca

Residing in a mountainous terrain that yielded little wood, the Inca’s most effective weapons were stones, rolled down hills or hurled from slingshots. Stones thrown from slings were the common weapon that could be used from a distance.

Inc also threw bolas. Bolas is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, which hurled at the legs of enemies to bring them to their enemies.

Bolas were most famously used by the gauchos or Argentinean cowboys but that have been found in excavations of Pre-Columbia settlements, especially in Patagonia, whore indigenous peoples used them to catch 200-pound guanaco (Ilamalike mammals) and nandu (birds).

They were also used in battle by the Mapuche and Inca army. Bolas were used extensively against the Spanish, especially to cripple their horses. When the bolas were spun around, then hurled, the stones encircled that arms or legs of an enemy.
Bolas used by ancient Inca