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Offline GlisGlis

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clay ceramic arrowhead
« on: July 02, 2015, 09:43:15 am »
ok that could be a silly question.
I've tried some search on internet and had not success

Do you know of any ancient culture that used clay (or other pottery stuff) to make arrowheads.
maybe preform to be knapped after firing?

My toughs are that probably a culture able to provide strong enough ceramic had allready some kind of metal working too but i'd like to investigate anyway.
Any reference or suggestion or tough are wellcome
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Offline Zuma

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Re: clay ceramic arrowhead
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2015, 11:14:39 am »
I have never heard of any. Copper yes. ABO ceramics are not to old.
Around 3,500 yrs. By this time points were pretty small and material
 to make them was plentyfull.
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Offline JackCrafty

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Re: clay ceramic arrowhead
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2015, 08:30:22 pm »
No fired clay arrowheads that I know of.   They might have existed.  If we can think of the idea, I'm sure they did too.  There are some drawbacks.  The most important being strength. Ancient pottery wasn't very strong in most cases.
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Offline crooketarrow

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Re: clay ceramic arrowhead
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2015, 11:45:16 am »
 I've never seen or heard of it.

  There's got to be a reason. To solf I'd think.
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Offline GlisGlis

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Re: clay ceramic arrowhead
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2015, 10:31:33 am »
I started thinking about it after reading the raw hide arrowheads thread and considering how difficult is to find good stone in some places.
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Offline Zuma

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Re: clay ceramic arrowhead
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2015, 10:56:54 am »
Oh, oh, I did find one real old one on a shelf.
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Offline Zuma

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Re: clay ceramic arrowhead
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2015, 11:04:29 am »
Oh yeah it is ceramic. >:D
just modern made.
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