In Northern Africa flint arrow-heads have been discovered, and the leaf-shaped, triangular, and tanged and barbed forms have been found in the dolmens of Algeria.[1] Some have also been collected in Tunis,[2] and simple tanged arrow-heads have been found in the Sahara.[3]
But little is at present known of the stone antiquities of a great part of Asia; but an arrow-head from India[4] was in the possession of Prof. Buckman, who obligingly furnished me with a sketch of it. It is acutely pointed, about 258 inches long, and tanged and barbed, though the barbs are now broken off. Some small leaf-shaped arrow-heads have been found at Ranchi,[5] in the Chota-Nagpore district. Mr. Bauerman, F.G.S., found, at Ghenneh, in Wady Sireh, Sinai, a flint arrow-head, neatly chipped on both faces, of a very peculiar form, being leaf-shaped, with a tang attached. It is in all nearly 2 inches long, of which the leaf-shaped part occupies about 112 inches, and the slender tang or stalk the other 12 inch. It lay in a tomb[6] with a lance-head of flint, a bracelet of copper, and a necklace of spiral shells. A very similar arrow-head, 212 inches long, from Wady Maghara, was presented by Major Macdonald[7] to the British Museum. The form seems also to occur in North America.[8]
The Abbé Richard found some very finely worked arrow-heads on and around Mount Sinai.[9] Two[10] from that locality were presented to the Society of Antiquaries in 1872. Flint arrow-heads have been found on Mount Lebanon,[11] mostly tanged, but without pronounced barbs. A few are leaf-shaped and triangular.
Some obsidian arrow-heads from the Caucasus[12] are triangular, with a semicircular notch at the base. Some of flint and of leaf-shaped form have been found at Hissar,[13] near Damghan, Persia.
Arrow-heads from Japan[14] are curiously like those from Europe, being triangular with or without barbs, and stemmed and slightly barbed. For the most part, they are narrower in their proportions than the European. Some are formed of obsidian. Besides these, the lozenge-shaped, the leaf-shaped, and a peculiar form with broad-ended barbs and no central tang, occur. There is a fine series in the Museum at Leyden and in the British Museum.
In Greenland flat arrow-heads and harpoon-points of chalcedony and slate are found, most of which approximate to ordinary North American forms. I have one triangular arrow-head with the sides- ↑ Bonstetten, "Essai sur les dolmens," pl, iv. Zeitsch. f. Ethn., vol. xvii. p. (93).
- ↑ L'Anthropologie, vol. v. (1894), p. 538.
- ↑ Rev. Arch., vol. xlii. pl. x. p. 1.
- ↑ Arch. Soc. Journ., vol. xvii. p. 74.
- ↑ Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. lvii. 1889, p. 392, pl. iv. 6, 7.
- ↑ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxv. p. 35.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. i. p. 322.
- ↑ Schoolcraft, "Ind. Tribes," vol. i. pl. xvii. 9.
- ↑ Rev. Arch., vol. xxii. p. 378. Brit. Assoc. Rep., 1871.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. v. p. 330.
- ↑ La Nature, 25 juillet, 1896. L'Anthrop., vol. vii., 1896, p. 571.
- ↑ Chantre, "Le Caucase," (1885), pl. i. Zeitsch. f. Ethn., 1885, Supp., pl. viii.
- ↑ Journ. R. As. S., 1876, p. 425. Miith. Anth. Ges. in Wien, 1884, N. S., vol. iv. p. (28).
- ↑ Trans. Preh. Congress, 1868, p. 266. See also Bull. de la Soc. Roy. des Ant. du Nord, 1843-45, p. 26. Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. x. p. 395, pl. xviii. Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. vi. p. 15. Zeitsch. f. Ethn., vol. xxiv., 1892, p. (432). Matériaux, vol. viii. p. 92; xiv., p. 32. T. Kanda, "Anc. St. Impts. of Japan," (Tokio, 1884).
