A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus): hafting, projectiles and Mousterian hunting weapons

• Published in: Antiquity Vol. 73; no. 280; pp. 394 - 402
• Main Authors: Boëda, Eric, Geneste, J. M., Griggo, C., Mercier, N., Muhesen, S., Reyss, J. L., Taha, A., Valladas, H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.06.1999; Portland Press; J. Bellows; Antiquity Publications/Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Ancient civilizations; Antiquities; Archaeology; Archaeology and Prehistory; Asia; Fossils; Horses; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hunting; Hunting, Primitive; Levallois; Mousterian culture; Neanderthal; Neanderthals; Near East; Palaeolithic and mesolithic; Paleolithic Age; Prehistory; Prehistory and protohistory; Production systems; projectile; Syria; Traditional hunting; Weapons; wild ass; Neanderthal; Middle Palaeolithic; Asia; Syria; Neanderthal; Levallois; hunting; wild ass; projectile; Syria; Hunting; Economy; Donkey; Fauna; Lithic industry; Method; Point; Predation; Weapon
• ISSN: 0003-598X; 1745-1744
• DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00088335

The hunting methods of the Neanderthals are rarely evident in detail in the archaeological record. Here, the rare and important discovery of a fragment of broken Levallois point, embedded in the neck-bones of a wild ass, provokes plenty of discussion of the methods of hafting and killing game in the Middle Palaeolithic of Syria.