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Mesolithic cutting arrows: functional analysis of arrows used in the hunting of large game

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jan Friis-Hansen
Jan Friis-Hansen*
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Olesvej 3A, Vedbaek, DK-2950, Denmark
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Abstract

Arrowheads and projectile points, with their elegant shapes, are the very stuff of archaeological classification. But do the classes relate usefuly, or at all, to real differences in arrowhead purpose or efficiency? Modern and Mesolithic arrowheads are studied with their killing purpose in mind

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 244 , September 1990 , pp. 494 - 504
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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