[Bonetools] Bone Spearheads and Combat

[Jean-Marc Pétillon]

Dear Ian,

any chance of these objects being hafted tools instead of spearheads?
Most of them are not that pointed, and the wide and hollow shaft is
likely to hinder penetration a lot...

Best,

Jean-Marc


"trzaska at lineone.net" <trzaska at lineone.net> a écrit :

> Dear WBRG,
>
> I have prepared a publication text on Iron Age bone pointed   
> implements from a site at Trumpington,
> Cambridgeshire. The completed volume has been sent to an external   
> referee, and he suggests that
> these objects were used as spearheads, which I would agree with.   
> However, the site has some
> evidence of weapon injuries to individuals, as well as some worked   
> human bone, mainly femurs; and
> he suggests that these implements were used as spearheads in combat.
>
> I wonder what you think about this idea? I enclose my (much more   
> cautious) text here with record
> photographs of the objects, plus another file with some   
> illustrations of the Trumpington material
> as well as the single iron spearhead from the site and another   
> object (bottom left), a whale bone
> spear from Linton, Cambridgeshire. That object was published   
> alongside a group of early Iron Age
> bone objects from the site in 1953, but is it really of early Iron Age date ?
>
> I wonder what you think about this martial interpretation ?
>
> Ian Riddler



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