Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: JackCrafty on September 23, 2014, 10:21:31 pm
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Here's a good video that shows arrowheads used in Britain during the Neolithic era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99izK-xOnOw
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A couple more showing tests of the various UK arrowheads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI9ucZlKRMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC--DK8sw4Y
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interesting video. but how could he possibly know that some of them weren't designed for shooting but instead were spiritual?
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He was just giving his opinion based on what he has read. He conducts his own tests, though, and is surprised by the results.
As far as how anyone knows that some arrowheads were ceremonial, I think the idea is based on artifacts that have been found with burials. The arrowheads are often very high quality. I think the idea that a hunter or warrior should have the best equipment in the afterlife was common, so it's not hard to see the connection. But, like you, I don't think we can rule out the idea that high quality (or very delicate) arrowheads were used everyday just like all the rest.
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Gotta get to a wifi.
I got English Flint! lol
Zuma
Are you gonna make some UK types, Jack?
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My wife just got her masters in anthropology, and the joke around the department was that if you can't pin down a use for something, say it was used for ceremonial purposes.