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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 Palzo- 
lithic times. The fact that in 
Egypt we are dealing with an 
age, the Copper, separated from 
the Paleolithic 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 archeological data, but 
these are merely great-great- 
grandchildren of the débris 
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. 
(r) 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,! while two by Petrie? are, though probably pre- 
dynastic, of more elaborate workmanship. 
1 The Archeological Survey of Nubia for 1907-8 (Cairo, 1910), Plate LXV., 
EARLY HARPOON, EARLY HARPOON. 
See noter. See note 2. 
b. 5. 
2 Nagada and Ballas (London, 1896), Plate LXV. 7; and Ancient Egypt 
(1915), Part I.-p. 13, f. 3. 
