|
Date: |
|
Description: | Flint tools were used by early people during the Stone Age. In the Stone Age, metals were not known and tools were made from stone, wood, bone or antler. This flint tool is an arrowhead. It would have been attached to a shaft to create an arrow. Arrows were often composite weapons which means they were made up of separate parts. An arrowhead would be set into a shaft and secured with some kind of glue. This meant that arrows were easier to fix when they were broken or worn. Arrowheads are often the only evidence of prehistoric archery because the arrow shaft and bow rarely survive. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | archaeology prehistoric | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
WEAPON
Incomplete 9th century steel-bladed Viking…
-
-
-
-
-
SPEAR
Tip of cu-alloy spear- or…
-
SPEAR
Tip of cu-alloy spear- or…
-
weapon
Copper alloy arrowhead. Barbed and…
-
weapon
Copper alloy arrowhead. Barbed. 72mm…
-
weapon
Copper alloy arrowhead. 68mm long.…
|