ARROWHEADS AS AN ELEMENT OF THE MILITARY INSTRUMENTS OF THE TRIBES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH-EASTERN CAUCASUS IN THE XV - FIRST HALF OF VII B.C
The topics related to the study of weapons of antiquity and the middle ages of the Caucasus are of strong interest for several generations of researchers. The late Bronze Age is not an exception, with the been arrowheads being one of the most popular findings of that period. However, creating of typological schemes, often based on the formal features without involvement of the complex data of the adjacent eras and limited to the framework of one random period, did not allow forming a retrospective view of this type of weapon as a whole phenomenon. As a result, there has been a discrepancy between the objective archaeological data and its subjective perception in the research practice. This article presents an attempt to make some adjustments in this topic. The main objective of the article is to demonstrate that a bow and arrows in the late II - early I Millennium BC occupied an important and independent place in the arsenal of weapons of the studied territory. This has been based on the tradition of their use in the previous era.