An interesting arrowhead
Found during recent excavations at Marden henge, Wiltshire, England.http://twitpic.com/2b0vju/fullI've never seen an arrowhead with such an elongated barb, does anyone here have any info on why it was...
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i have two theories. one, it's a barbed harpoon point most likely for sea mammals or fish. two, the maker did it just because he could. we tend to forget that these were people just like us with...
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thank you Paleoarts for bringing that up. It's easy to forget, but the temptation to 'play around' in hand crafts has probably driven much of the innovation that has advanced us. If necessity is the...
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It's cool for sure... What I notice is that it would be hard to secure it to a shaft in a way that would make the barb very effective. The notched shaft sits in the concave portion at the base, right?...
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are we sure it's a projectile point ?? lots of what we tend to call "points" were actually used as knives or scrapers, not as atlatl or arrowheads.........
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Springbuck wrote: It's cool for sure... What I notice is that it would be hard to secure it to a shaft in a way that would make the barb very effective. The notched shaft sits in the concave portion...
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Ahhh, so the head more likely had one barb, and was attached a bit asymmetrically. Thanks.
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It does infact come to me as Paleoarts theory of a fishing harpoon maybe. If you look at the shape and size it may have been used to pierce and barb the prey and unfortunately it looks like this poor...
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