The arrowheads from Grd-i Tle (Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan)

Dezsö, Tamás

doi:10.17204/dissarch.2017.97

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“…Many scholars have used the presence of these arrow point types as indicators of foreign attacks or settlement by foreign ethnic groups, such as the Scythians and Cimmerians [see 3 , 7 , 8 , 17 , 18 ]. However, Derin and Muscarella [ 8 ] review how using socketed bronze points as ethnic identifiers in the destruction of the kingdom of Urartu has led to a chaotic series of interpretations, since even in the context of a destroyed fort it is often impossible to tell whether an arrow was shot by an attacker or defender.…”

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Reassessing the terminal ballistic performance of trilobate and quadrilobate arrow points on Iron Age battlefields

Pettigrew

Taylor

2023

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In the Eurasian Iron Age arrow points comprise a prominent class of artifact. Projectile experiments are useful for studying the ballistic performance of ancient arrow points and implications of arrow point innovations in warfare and shifting socio politics in Eurasia. However, when projectile experiments are not representative of past weapon use, they can lead to misinterpretations of the archaeological record. Notable problems arise when homogeneous target simulants used in controlled experiments are not representative of the targets past weapons were designed to encounter. This article explores the relationship between arrow point morphology and design choices in the Iron Age using different target media. Shooting arrow points into pottery clay leads to the conclusion that more blades reduced penetrating performance on ancient battlefields, but a very different result obtains by shooting the same points into thick tooling leather as a simulant for leather body armor. The results help explain patterns observed in the Eurasian archaeological record, where trilobate arrow points–initially developed by lightly armored horse archers on the Eurasian steppe–were increasingly adopted by a wide range of societies across Eurasia throughout the Iron Age.

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Reassessing the terminal ballistic performance of trilobate and quadrilobate arrow points on Iron Age battlefields

Pettigrew

Taylor

2023

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Experimental assessment of Neo-Assyrian bronze arrowhead penetration: An initial study comparing bilobate versus trilobate morphologies

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Matney

Morrison

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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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«cimmero-Scythian» Antiquities From Central Anatolia

Makhortykh¹

2022

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Central Anatolia is one of the regions of Western Asia, where the most significant concentration of archaeological materials connected with the Eurasian nomads of the Early Scythian period is recorded. The flat plains of Central Anatolia had good pastures and served as a space where different cultures communicated with each other since ancient times. In the 7th—6th centuries BC this territory was located between Western Anatolia with Lydia and the eastern Greek centers and Eastern Anatolia, which was the zone of interest of Urartu and Assyria. Small local «principalities» were localized here. These «principalities» were probably controlled by well-armed and mobile nomads, who used this territory as a base for raids on neighboring as well as more distant regions. Finds of nomadic types from Central Anatolia include weapons (bronze arrowheads of various types, iron sword and axe, bimetallic pickaxe), horse equipment (bits with stirrup-shaped loops on the ends, three-looped cheekpieces, harness fittings), and objects made in the traditions of Scythian animal art style. Most numerous category of nomad inventory coming from the region is constituted by socketed arrows found in burials in the province of Amasya, Imirler, Gordion and on the local settlements (Boğazköy, Kaman-Kalehöyük, Kerkenes Dağ). The article introduces their typology and provides analogies coming from the Eurasian monuments of the 7th—6th centuries BC. The study of early nomadic complexes from Anatolia shows their syncretic nature, which is influenced by artifacts of Cimmerian, Scythian, and Сentral Asian origin as well as the local Near Eastern items. It highlights the complex ethnic composition of the nomadic groups located here in the 7th—6th centuries BC that does not allow attributing all these materials to a single group, for example, the Cimmerians.

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The arrowheads from Grd-i Tle (Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan)

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Reassessing the terminal ballistic performance of trilobate and quadrilobate arrow points on Iron Age battlefields

Reassessing the terminal ballistic performance of trilobate and quadrilobate arrow points on Iron Age battlefields

Experimental assessment of Neo-Assyrian bronze arrowhead penetration: An initial study comparing bilobate versus trilobate morphologies

«cimmero-Scythian» Antiquities From Central Anatolia

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