Essay on the arrowhead frames of the Sahara.

Henri-Jean Hugot, a research associate at the CNRS, collected nearly four thousand arrowhead frames across the Sahara. The prodigious abundance of these frames did not seem to have attracted any serious study until 1957, when he published in the famous journal "Libyca" the text that we have just reissued, updated with a chapter on Mauritania. It became clear every day that the absence of this reference text, which had become unobtainable, was being cruelly felt and prolonged the uncertainty reigning both in the descriptions and in the classification of arrowhead frames. Initially intended for his personal use, Henri-Jean Hugot wrote this study based on documents in the rich collections of the Bardo Museum in Algiers. He had the great honor of receiving the enlightened advice of Abbé Breuil and Professor L. Balout.