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The aim of this article is to set the questions of terminology and typology of ranged weapons in early medieval period in the area of today‘s Slovakia. The paper deals with basic parts of bow and theirs interpretation value in archaeological sources, proposes terminology used for their description, based also on new international researches about this problematics. The typology of arrowheads based on multilevel morphological description is also presented. Its result is alphanumerical code, that can be used on every specimen from the analysed period and it results in chronological analysis focused on representation of types in chronological periods from the end of 7th to beginning of 11th century.