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Hassanzadeh Y, Mashkour M. (2023). For Warfare or for Prestige? A Survey on Ziwiye Bone Arrowheads. Parseh J. Archaeol. Stud.. 7(24), 47-62. doi:10.30699/PJAS.7.24.47
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1- Head of research Center, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran , y_hassanzadeh@yahoo.com
2- Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements UMR 7209 du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), CP 56, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
2- Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements UMR 7209 du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), CP 56, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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Ziwiye, as one of the key sites for Iran’s North West Iron Age (Median kingdom), has many masterpieces kept in different museums and a long list of publications. The main part of this list consists of monographs that are written based on one or more limited objects from an out of context collection. There are few articles that comprehensively include the findings “attributed Ziwiye” and “came from excavation”. However, many articles have been published about Zavieh’s findings, but parts of this collection still remain unknown and do not receive enough attention. The corpus of bone arrowheads is one of them, some of which were found during archaeological excavations while others came to museums from antiquities dealers. These include: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Musée du Louvre in Paris, the National Museum of Iran in Tehran, and the Sanandaj Archaeological Museum. This article aims to introduce and categorize 51 bone arrowheads. Some of these were registered as ivories, but our research concluded that all of these were made of bone. In few instances, the production manner prevented the proper identification of bone versus ivory. Another examined point in this research is whether such arrowheads were produced for actual warfare or for prestige and symbolic use in ceremonial events considering their bone material. The examined samples from other sites show that bone can be hard enough to penetrate game and human body even with light protection such as archery. Bone for making arrowheads was used for hunting big games and some tribes still use them.
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Special Archeology
Received: 2022/12/17 | Accepted: 2023/01/30 | Published: 2023/08/21
Received: 2022/12/17 | Accepted: 2023/01/30 | Published: 2023/08/21
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