Stone spear

The stone spear is one of the most basic weapons and has been used by all men in Amauvala from the time they learnt to take two objects and make the most simple tools. Essentially, it is a wooden stick with that has at one end a piece of suitable stone which is tied or glued, that has either been carefully selected or painstakingly chiselled to exhibit the suggestion of a cutting edge.
Some types of stone are better for this purpose than others. Flintstone for example, while extremely brittle, breaks to form extremely sharp edges that rival obsidian in their cutting effectiveness.
The usage of stone as a spearhead has both clear advantages and disadvantages. It is easilly assembled with little in the way of necessary craftmanship and the materials necessary are ubiquitous and abundant. The disadvantage is their killing performance is not on par with sharper or stronger crystal and metal variations, the cutting edges tend to be duller or fatigue more easilly and an army armed with such spears is usually easilly bested by an enemy with more advanced technologies.
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