This was spotted in the following thread:
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1237975848/11#11and there were some responses on that thread.
Mrboss, not everyone is interested only in throwing long distances. In the context of their experiments they would have been more interested in the distance people could comfortably throw.
It would not have been
that dangerous standing downrange provided they kept their eyes open. Peruvians throw pretty big rocks and they were probably easily spotted, and could easily be dodged.
I think the results they obtained were interesting, and they did quote their 'raw data' which is rare, but I think their data reduction led to rather pessimistic conclusions about the ranges which might have been common in earlier times.
Thats probably one of the main reasons why they only reached 130 yds, because they have big rocks.