SPEARS, HARPOONS 37 
The Harpoon makes its appearance in the middle or (accord- 
ing to Osborne) early Magdalenian deposits. Its crudest form 
shows a short, straight piece of bone, deeply grooved on one face, 
BROKEN HARPOON, 
From Kent’s Cave. 
SINGLE BARBED DOUBLE BARBED REIN- DOUBLE BARBED HARPOON. 
HARPOON DEER HARPOON (La Neolithic. 
(Bruniquel). Madelaine). From Sutz, Switzerland. 
Observe the hole for at- 
taching the line. 
the ridges and notches along one edge being the only indications 
of what later developed into the recurved barbed points of the 
typical Harpoon. These barbs or points, retroverted in such 
a manner as to hold their place in the flesh of the fish, do not 
