Arrowheads constituted a large proportion of the stone tools produced by human communities in the Neolithic Age. As a hunting instrument, this arrowhead represents an improvement on prior models since it has a stern at one end, making it easier to fix onto the shaft of an arrow.
Provenance: Tell Ḥālūlā, Syria.
Era: Neolithic (circa 7000 BC).
Material: flint.
A collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Photo: Jacques Lessard.
Michel Fortin, Syria, Land of Civilization. Les Éditions de l'Homme, Musée de la Civilisation de Québec 1999.
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