Projectile Points
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2561040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Browne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 209-213 |
| Publication date | 1940-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/275280 |
| OpenAlex | W4251766415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Due, I believe, to the lack of a working knowledge of the bow and the atlatl, the tendency with some archaeologists is to date sites by the size of projectile points. In this paper, the writer hopes to prove this method is wrong.The pre-historic peoples, and especially the nomadic peoples, lived by hunting. The atlatl and spear, or the bow and arrow, were in daily use during a period covering many thousands of years. These peoples were thinkers, inventors and experimenters, and it is reasonable to expect that they all made and used very efficient projectile points. The sole purpose of a projectile point is to pierce the hide of an animal and to enter the body cavity deep enough to cause a hemorrhage that will in time kill the animal. Two agencies will cause the penetration-speed and weight
Archaeology · Arrow · Geometry · Operations research · Penetration (warfare) · Physics · Point (geometry) · Projectile · Projectile point · Spear · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Mathematics
When Is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference
Atlatl Dart Velocity
Getting to the point
A Tale of Two Weapons
Summary and Conclusions
Projectile Points
Contributions of Multidisciplinary Experimentation to the Study of Upper Paleolithic Projectile Points
Side-Notched and Unnotched Arrowpoints
Fabrication et utilisation des pointes à cran hambourgiennes
An optimal foraging-based model of hunter-gatherer population dynamics
Reconstructing projectile technology during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in the Levant
Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact
Points and convergent tools in the European Early Middle Palaeolithic site of Payre (SE, France)
Fabrication and Use of Hamburgian Shouldered Points
Why Flute? Folsom Point Design and Adaptation
Inferring the Function of Projectile Points from the Central Coast of Alta California
Adoption of the Bow in Prehistoric North America
Primitive Weapons and Modern Sport
A New Method for Classifying Dart and Arrow Projectile Points
Experiments in the function and performance of the weighted atlatl
Spearthrower performance
Distinguishing Between Darts and Arrows in the Archaeological Record
Projectile Point Shape and Durability
Arrowheads and Atlatl Darts
The Atlatl
A Pre-Columbian Wound
Experimental Archeology1
Behavioral Ecology, Technology, and the Organization of Labor
Radiocarbon Dating of Technological Transitions
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 1961 - 2025 (65) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |