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- Title
Macrofractures on bone-tipped arrows: analysis of hunter-gatherer arrows in the Fourie collection from Namibia.
- Authors
Bradfield, Justin
- Abstract
Bone points of two types, the one thin and poisoned and the other robust and not poisoned, are examined in this study of impact fractures. The bone points seem to have had similar experiences to stone points, producing fractures of a similar kind. Most of the fractures in the historical collection examined were caused by impacts. However, this early twentieth-century collection is not thought to be representative of contemporary fracture frequencies that occurred in hunting.
- Subjects
NAMIBIA; ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY; BOW &; arrow; BONE carving; AFRICAN art objects; ARCHAEOLOGY methodology; HISTORY; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Antiquity, 2012, Vol 86, Issue 334, p1179
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X0004833X