Making a point: wood-versusstone-tipped projectiles

Autor:	Nicole M. Waguespack, Todd A. Surovell, Adam Savage, Alice Dallow, Dan Tapster, Allen Denoyer, Jamie Hyneman
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Archeology Projectile General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Penetration (warfare) Forensic engineering Point (geometry) Art Archaeology media_common
Zdroj:	Antiquity. 83:786-800
ISSN:	1745-1744 0003-598X
DOI:	10.1017/s0003598x00098999
Popis:	What are the advantages of equipping a wooden arrow with stone, rather than just using the sharpened wooden tip? Very few it seems. In a series of well-controlled experiments the authors show that stone arrow-heads achieve barely 10 per cent extra penetration over wood. They then raise some pertinent ideas about the other advantages, social and symbolic that may have driven hunters the world over to adopt the stone tip.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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