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Hittite Archer in a Chariot In this stylized stone carving made about 1000 B.C.E. in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), a Hittite archer driven in a chariot shoots toward his foes, while a victim of an earlier shot is trampled beneath the horse’s hooves. The arrows might have been tipped with iron, which was becoming a more common material for weapons and tools. (Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey/Gianni Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY)