Editing Transverse arrowhead (section)

{{Short description|Arrowhead with a straight cutting edge}}
[[File:Neolithic Transverse Arrowhead (FindID 662583).jpg|thumb|Neolithic transverse arrowhead, found in [[Lincolnshire]], UK]]
A '''transverse arrowhead''' is a type of trapezoidal or triangular stone [[projectile point]] most commonly associated with the European [[Mesolithic]] and [[Neolithic]] periods although it is also found in other regions and periods.<ref name="Gopher1994">{{cite book|author=Avi Gopher|title=Arrowheads of the neolithic Levant: a seriation analysis, p. 41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=plSLhDtq-LcC|access-date=25 April 2011|date=November 1994|publisher=Eisenbrauns|isbn=978-0-931464-76-8}}</ref>

Unlike a conventional arrowhead which tapers to a point, transverse arrowheads widen to a cutting edge and was hafted onto an arrow shaft at its narrowest point. Other types have parallel sides but in any case transverse arrowheads are always wider than they are long.

Link to a page showing [https://web.archive.org/web/20190822193021/http://egiptomaniacos.foroactivo.com/t8084-murder-and-mayhem-in-predynastic-egypt transverse spearheads in use in pre-dynastic Egypt].