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Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history. Used equally in melee and thrown ... Boar spear; Bohemian ...
Spear-armed hoplite from Greco-Persian Wars. A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as bone, flint, obsidian, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.
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Most likely originating around 1230 AD, and perhaps remaining in use for 100 years, these blades are characterized by a flaring profile, and broad, abrupt tip. Type 1b Falchion from 1270. Manuscript art indicates they may have been straight, or curved in either direction. Most Surviving examples however are only very gently curved on the spine.
In Old English and other Germanic languages, which were spoken across much of Northwestern Europe, tribal groups often had names that appear to be based upon the names of weapons; for instance, the Angles may have taken their name from the Old English term angul (meaning "barbed" or "hook"), the Franks from the word franca ("spear," or possibly ...
Hoplite with spear in an arming scene on the tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix (490–470 BC. The dory or doru (/ ˈ d ɒ r uː /; Greek: δόρυ) was the chief spear of hoplites (heavy infantry) in Ancient Greece. The word doru is first attested in the Homeric epics with the meanings of "wood" and "spear".
The spear tip could be easily overlooked to the untrained eye, and for good reason — it’s made of mastodon bone, researchers say. Not the mastodon it was found in, but a different mastodon.
A spear in situ. Most of the spears were made using trunks of slow-growing spruce trees, except for spear IV, which is made from pine.The complete spears vary in length from 1.84 to 2.53 m (6.04 to 8.30 ft), with diameters ranging from 29 to 47 mm (1.14 to 1.85 in). [30]