(HAARETZ) -- An unusual discovery made in the rubble of a house in Gath paints a dramatic picture of the last days in this infamous Philistine city, famed as the hometown of the giant Goliath, Israeli archaeologists say.
Inside the home in the lower city, the researchers discovered an arrowpoint made of animal bone, which they believe may have been used as part of Gath’s futile last stand against the conquering army of the Aramean king Hazael more than 2,800 years ago.
Humans of course have been carving projectiles and other artifacts out of bone for hundreds of thousands of years. In and of itself a bone tool, even an arrowhead, is not a unique discovery. But it is a rare and fairly obsolete weapon to emerge in a site from the Iron Age, when, as the very name of the period suggests, you would expect a projectile to be made of deadly metal, not brittle bone.
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