Projectile Point Studies in Archaeology

Most people, when they think of stone tools, think of projectile points, or arrowheads, those little stone objects fastened to long pieces of wood and shot or thrust and flung into some planned piece of dinner. Here's a good collection.

A Hunting We Will Go
Most people in the world recognize an arrowhead when they see one. Whether they've personally collected them from nearby farmlands, seen them in museum displays or just watched them being shot into people in John Wayne movies, most people know the triangular tips of arrow shafts are the remnants of a hunting trip, the spent shotgun shells of the...

A North American Paleoindian Database: Fluted Point Densities
From David Anderson, and Michael K. Faught, a map indicating the location of paleoindian points.

Art Gumbus's Lithics Net
Including a projectile point typology for Texas.

Flintsource.Net
A cool little site from Rengert Elburg & Paul van der Kroft on sources of several flint types in Europe. Includes pictures, maps, and (eventually) characteristics of the stone.

Fulachta fiadh
A page on experimental archaeology from AnneMaire Denvir on these mysterious stone troughs from Bronze Age Ireland.

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