Spears

thumb|upright|Spear-armed hoplite from [[Greco-Persian Wars]]

thumb|300px|Trident of Poseidon

pole weapon

thumb|right|upright|Lee Lawrie, Odin (1939). Library of Congress [[John Adams Building, Washington, D.C.]]

thumb|Statue of Shiva holding a trishula. The trishula () is a trident, a divine symbol, commonly used as one of the principal symbols in Hinduism. It is most commonly associated with the deity Shiva and widely employed in his iconography.

thumb|300px|Normans|Norman cavalry attacks the Anglo-Saxon [[shield wall at the Battle of Hastings as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The "lances" depicted here are held with a one-handed over-the-head grip, and so their use is not the same as the "lances" of the later medieval period, when they were fitted with a "grapper" designed to engage a lance rest attached to the wielder's plate armour and used couched in the charge.]]

type of weapon used by hoplites in Ancient Greece

ancient pole arm used as a military weapon

thumb|Gē with engraved decoration of a tiger, Warring States period (475–221 BC) thumb|Eastern Zhou bronze dagger-axe alt= Dagger-axes and variants|thumb|Two dagger-axes (left), alongside four jis

type of spear that is primarily used for boar hunting

Slavic weapon

spear of Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology

thumb|50px|Drawing of an ahlspiess by Wendelin Boeheim The ahlspiess (or awl pike) was a thrusting spear developed and used primarily in Germany and Austria from the 15th to 16th centuries. The ahlspiess consisted of a long thin spike of square cross section measuring up to about a metre (39 inches) in length, mounted on a round wooden shaft and sometimes secured with a pair of langets extending from the socket. The length of the shaft ranged from 1.6 to 1.8 m. (5 - 6 feet), and located at the base of the spike was a rondel guard (a circular metal plate) to protect the hands. Large numbers of

thumb|Pluto holding a bident in a woodcut from the Gods and Goddesses series of Hendrick Goltzius (1588–1589)

type of spear

15th century weapon

8 wooden throwing spears from the Palaeolithic, excavated in 1994–1998 in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, Germany

Chinese spear

archaeological artifact of China

cold weapon

branched, multi-tipped spear with blades attached to the branches

thumb|right|Gunnar Hámundarson defends his house with an atgeir in [[Njáls saga.]] An atgeir was a type of polearm in use in Viking Age Scandinavia and Norse colonies in the British Isles and Iceland. The word atgeirr is older than the Viking Age, and cognates can be found in Old English and other Germanic dialects (atiger, setgare, aizger), deriving from the Germanic root gar, and is related to the Old Norse geirr, meaning spear.

300px|thumb|Tepoztōpīlli from the Armeria Real collection in Madrid thumbnail|A page from the Codex Mendoza depicting Aztec warriors each wielding a tepoztopilli 100px|left|thumb|Modern replica of a tepoztopilli. The tepoztopilli was a common front-line weapon of the Aztec military. The tepoztopilli was a pole-arm, and to judge from depictions in various Aztec codices it was roughly the height of a man, although historian John Pohl indicates that the weapon used between the 12th and 14th century was made in sizes from in length. The wedge-shaped wooden head, about twice the length of the users

The menaulion or menavlion (), also menaulon or menavlon (μέναυλον) was a heavy spear with a length of with a thick shaft, used by the Byzantine infantry as early as the 10th century AD, against enemy heavy cavalry. To give it increased strength, whole oak or cornel saplings were preferably used. These were then tipped with a long blade of ca. .

Dangpa () is the Korean name for a Ranseur (three-pronged trident-like spear) first described in the Muyejebo, a Korean martial arts manual of the Joseon Dynasty (published 1610).