Busacca Gallery

A Flint tool from the Stone Age and Iron Age spearhead A very rare and large piece of a two sided spearhead in a red stone. Notched on both sides with very fine serrated edges. Ideal for a Collector hobbyist. An absolutely gorgeous piece! Spearheads such as this one could have been used for both hunting and warfare. beautiful display piece age unknown. Collected Native American Art and Artifact. This is a large spear head chipped stone arrowhead. This piece has no proof of age or origin. What I can tell you is the artist of this piece did a awesome job. it is beautiful.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a sharpened head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be of another material fastened to the shaft, such as obsidian, iron, or bronze. The most common design is of a metal spearhead, shaped like a triangle or a leaf. Archeological evidence documents that wooden spears were used for hunting at least 400,000 years ago. Neanderthals were constructing stone spear heads from as early as 300,000 BP. By 250,000 years ago wooden spears were made with fire-hardened points. From 200,000 BP Middle Paleolithic humans began to make complex stone blades which were used as spear heads. At these times there was still a clear difference between spears designed to be thrown and those designed to be used in hand to hand combat. By the Magdalenian period (c. 15000-9500 BCE), spear-throwers similar to the later atlatl were in use Spears were one of the most common personal weapons from the Stone Age until the advent of firearms. They may be seen as the ancestor of such weapons as the lance, the halberd, the naginata, the bill and the pike. One of the earliest weapons fashioned by human beings and their ancestors, it is still used for hunting and fishing, and its influences can still be seen in contemporary military arsenals as the rifle-mounted bayonet. Spears can be used as both ballistic and melee weapons. Spears used primarily for thrusting may be used with either one or two hands and tend to have heavier and sturdier designs than those intended exclusively for throwing. Those designed for throwing, often referred to as javelins, tend to be lighter and have a more streamlined head, and can be thrown either by hand or with the assistance of a spear thrower such as the atalatl or woomera. Out of the atlatl dart eventually the arrow for use with bows developed.