-
better with the type of target. For example, the
Inuit have short, fixed-
foreshaft harpoons for
hunting at
breathing holes,
while loose-shafted ones are...
-
foreshaft and two
mammoth ivory foreshafts,
which may have been
straightened with a shaft-wrench,
combined with
heating or steaming. The
foreshafts are...
- the bone
foreshaft, and the
bonehead (tip) with
barbs pointed backward. The
barbed head was
loosely ****ed into the
socket of the
foreshaft so that when...
- javelins. They have a
weighted point,
often of stone, on a
removable foreshaft. This is held by
friction onto a thin,
flexible main
shaft a few metres...
- used to
build a
temporary shelter or more
permanent hut roofs. A
harpoon foreshaft identified as wood of the palm was
found with a
large flaked lithic projectile...
-
throughout the region.
Arrows were made of cane and
pointed with
hardwood foreshafts. The
tribes also used
controlled burning techniques to
increase tree growth...
- 6th
century BC;
small in size, and
likely ****ed on
foreshafts made of hardwood:
since the
foreshafts were
detachable from the main
arrow body, they could...
- hypotheses. Rods that were
beveled on both ends are most
often interpreted as
foreshafts to
which stone points were hafted, with a pair of rods
surrounding each...
-
artifact found in
rivers in
northern Florida is the
ivory foreshaft. One end of a
foreshaft was
attached to a
projectile point with
pitch and sinew. The...
- and
consisted of a
mainshaft and a 15–20 centimetre (6–8 inches) long
foreshaft with a
flint point. They had
shallow grooves on the base,
indicating that...
