Oswald Seri Photographer/Artist
In this picture there is a little African boy with spear. the picture is really close up and the boy look really sad and thirsty. his eyes are closed thinking about his next target and he really wants to hunt holding that spear.. It took the form of the pike, the lance, and later the ax-bladed among other variations. The spear-carrying or massed formation of closely ranked men, was used by Sumerian armies inn old times. Two thousand years later the Greeks refined the concept, using Philip II of Macedon introduced the long that gave the Macedonian infantry an extra reach before the pike blades of the opposing Greeks could reach them.
These close formations of men marched or ran toward their opponents bristling with spear points, which they then thrust into the enemy’s line. equipped infantry to conquer his huge empire. Roman legionaries used a heavy seven-foot-long javelin. Foot soldiers were not the only ones to use weapons. Greek, Macedonian, and Roman cavalry and the mounted knights of the European Middle Ages all carried lances. Pole-arms and tactics evolved along these lines until the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, when soldiers used elaborate pikes like the halberd—a combination spear with a point, an ax-blade for helmets, and a hook for pulling knights off their horses.