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concern us first. Of the Trident there seems to be neither 



example or representation. Priority of use may possibly be 



conceded to the Spear in Palaeo- 

 lithic times. The fact that in 

 Egypt we are dealing with an 

 age, the Copper, separated from 

 the PalaeoHthic by the New 

 Stone era, prevents even a 

 guess as to priority on the Nile. 

 Egypt, it is true, bequeaths us 

 the oldest historical as apart 

 from archaeological data, but 

 these are merely great-great- 

 grandchildren of the debris 

 data of France, and compara- 

 tively modern. 



Then again, in Europe the 

 Harpoon was rarely combined 

 with objects of the Copper 

 Age, in Egypt frequently. 



The Harpoon has been 

 divided by Bates, but, I think, 

 somewhat needlessly, into two 

 types. 



(i) A spear barbed uni- 

 laterally or bilaterally. 



(2) A similar Spear which 

 has its head so socketed as to 

 come free from the shaft when 

 the object has been struck, the 



quarry being thereafter retrieved by means of a line made 



fast to the head itself. 



One of the simplest specimens is, perhaps, that figured by 



Reisner, 1 while two by Petrie 2 are, though probably pre- 



dynastic, of more elaborate workmanship. 



^ The ArchcBological Survey of Nubia for 1907-8 (Cairo, 1910), Plate LXV., 

 b. 5- 



2 Naqada and Ballas (London, 1896), Plate LXV. 7 ; and Ancient Egypt 

 (1915), Part I. p. 13, f. 3. 



EARLY HARPOON. 



See note i. 



EARLY HARPOON. 



See note 2. 



