840 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, ISftT. 



Fig. 41. 



Fig. 43. 



been bent backward into the forni of a hook, thus making it into a barb 



(tig. 41). Some were ar- 

 ranged with barbs, otliers 

 withont. The bronze iin- 

 l)U'ments were cast, tlie 

 iron ones liammered. 



A few of the imi)lements 

 of chisel shape, if arrow- 

 heads, of the form tranch- 

 ant transversal, were found 

 in the cemetery of Mou(^*i- 

 yeri (figs. 40, 47). It is 

 curious to remark that 

 while the bronze and iron 

 arrowheads of this period 

 and locality are the gen- 

 eral form of chippedstone 

 arrowheads of prehistoric 

 times, those of chipped 

 stone — that is, the obsid- 

 ian specimens — are of a 

 new and almost unknown 

 form, ruder and more ar- 

 chaicthan found elsewhere. 

 The warrior or hunter 

 carried all or several 

 kinds of arrows. Their 

 quivers when found con- 

 tained a n assortment. 

 Those of bronze were in the greatest number, then iron, and lastly stone. 



Tl)earch;eologistexercisescare 

 in his conclusions and may re- 

 fuse to accept evidence of facts 

 which would be received by the 

 historian withont or with but 

 little question. For example, the 

 locality most prolific with stone 

 arrowheads known to the author, 

 and those of the finest quality 

 and workmanship (Plates 2 and 

 3), is on the banks of Lake 

 Thrasymene, between Cortona 

 and Perugia, Italy, near the site 

 (itself uncertain) of the great 

 battle wherein Ilannibal so ter- 

 ribly defeated the Komans, kill- 

 ing their commander, Flaminius, and routing their army 



Fig. 42. 



Fig. 45. 



PREHISTORIC ARROWPOINTS OF BRONZE AND IRON FROM AR- 

 MENIA. 



(Fig. 42) bronze, Museum of Tiflis; (figs. 41,43> cemoterv of 

 Cliei'tan-tliagh; (figs. 44, 45) cemetery of Mou(;i-y('-ii. 



lie Morgan, figs. 66-fili. \ natural size. 



Figs. 46, 47. 



PREHISTORir ARROWPOINTS OF CHIPPED OBSIDIAN, 



trancliant transversal. 



Cemetery of Mon^i-yi*ri, Annenia. 



dc Morgan, tip. 61. Natural size. 



Yet these 



