#harpoon

Uncanny X-Men #211

The Mississippi and smaller rivers and streams provided many fish, with freshwater drum, catfish, northern pike, suckers, gar, bowfin, bullheads and sturgeon popular. Fishing techniques have been suggested from the nature of some of the artifacts recovered. They can also be suggested from the nature and size of the fish. Large fish may have been speared. Nets and seines would have been the most efficient way to harvest schools of smaller fish in the shallow backwaters. Even crayfish and turtles were eaten.  Pictured is a bone harpoon (left) and two netsinkers (right).

Harpoon

After WW2 this aircraft was operated by Globe air out of Falcon Field for crop dusting and agricultural transport. In 1985 it suffered a dual engine failure just after take off. The aircraft was declared a loss and written off.

This is a 6500 year old harpoon made from a Red Deer antler and found in the River Dee. It is of a similar type of harpoon to those found in Mesolithic caves or rock shelters near Oban. This piece has been carbon dated to around 4500 BCE.

I am a responsible adult (bought a harpoon gun at an antique shop)

You’re never far behind, preferring to bring up the rear when I’m dressed in my barely there tactical gear and ready for ocean sport.