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Chipped flint arrowheads from the Neolithic site of Gritille in the Euphrates river valley of southeast Turkey. This style of arrowhead, called a "Byblos point" is typical of the PPNB, and shows that hunting continued to have economic importance even after the advent of animal domestication in this period.

 Epipaleolithic Pit Houses at Abu Hureya

Name: Arrowheads

Material: Flint

Size: Unknown

Date: Neolithic

Place of Origin: Gritille, Turkey

Location: Adiyaman Museum, Turkey

Source and Registration#: Photograph from the collection of Gil Stein

Gil Stein

Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago