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Veröffentlichung:	Februar 2014
Genre:	Ratgeber
ISBN:	9781155837789
EAN-Code:	9781155837789
Verlag:	Books LLC, Reference Series
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 246 mm / B 189 mm / D 3 mm
Gewicht:	87 gr
Seiten:	33
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Chapters: Sling, Slingshot, Quarterstaff, Spear, Projectile point, List of premodern combat weapons, Axe, Bow, Club, Meteor hammer, Mere, Millwall brick, Blowgun, Hand axe, Goedendag, Shillelagh, Ranged weapon, Fukiya, Punji stick, Taiaha, Patu, Rungu, Surujin, Throwing axe, Tao, Wahaika, Kotiate, Tewhatewha, Maripi, Hoeroa. Excerpt: A spear is a pole weapon 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 bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or bronze. The most common design for hunting or combat spears since ancient times has incorporated a metal spearhead shaped like a barbed triangle, lozenge or leaf. The heads of fishing spears usually feature barbs or serrated edges. Spears can be divided into two broad categories: those designed for thrusting and those designed for throwing. Spear manufacture and use is not confined to human beings. It is also practised by the Pan troglodytes verus subspecies of the Common Chimpanzee. Chimpanzees near Kédougou, Senegal were observed to create spears by breaking straight limbs off trees, stripping them of their bark and side branches, and sharpening one end with their teeth. They then used the weapons to hunt galagos sleeping in hollows. Orangutans also have used spears to fish, presumably after observing humans fishing in a similar manner. Hunting spear and knife, from Mesa Verde National ParkArcheological evidence found in Germany documents that wooden spears were used for hunting since at least 400,000 years ago. Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago. Neanderthals were constructing stone spear heads from as early as 300,000 BP and by 250,000 years ago, wooden spears were made with fire-hardened points. From 200,000 BP onwards, Middle Paleolithic humans began to make complex stone blades with flaked edges which were used as spear heads. These stone heads could be fixed to the spear shaft by gum or resin or by bindings made