List of types of spears explained

This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history.

Used equally in melee and thrown

• Migration Period spear

Normally melee

• Bayonet (when fixed to a Long gun)

Asia

• Arbir
• Bambu Runcing
• Dangpa
• Gichang
• Hoko yari
• Ji
• Kama-yari
• Qiang
• Sibat
• Trishula
• Yari
  • Naginata Assegai

Europe

• Ahlspiess
• Boar spear
• Bohemian earspoon
• Brandistock
• Dory
• Fauchard
• Goedendag
• Halberd
• Half pike
• Hasta
• Military fork
• Ox tongue spear
• Partisan
• Pike
• Plançon a picot
• Ranseur
• Sarissa
• Spetum
• Spontoon
• Trident
• Glaive

Elsewhere

• Hoeroa (Māori, New Zealand)
• Iklwa (Zulu)
• Makrigga (Zande)
• Tepoztopilli (Aztec)

Normally used from horseback

• Barcha
• Kontos
• Lance
• Xyston

Normally thrown

• Harpoon
  • One flue harpoon
  • Two flue harpoon

Europe

• Angon
• Falarica
• Framea
• Golo
• Hak
• Jaculum
• Javelin
• Lancea
• Pilum
• Plumbata
• Soliferrum
• Spiculum
• Verutum

Elsewhere

• Assegai (Africa)
• Djerid (Asia Minor, India and Africa)
• Toggling harpoon (Americas)