Theory and methods of the usewear analysis of lithic tools and the example of the arrowheads from the Morgado Superior Cave (Tomar, Pt)

After an introduction about history, potentialities and methods of the usewear analysis on prehistoric lithic industries, with a short description of the most common usewear traces, the case of the arrowheads from Gruta do Morgado Superior is an example of the usewear analysis methodology applied to an archaeological context. The use wear analysis of the arrowheads from the Morgado Cave allowed identifying the strong symbolic value of those elements of the grave goods for that human group and, at the same time, to hypothesize the existence of different hunting strategies.