The two flue harpoon was the primary weapon used in whaling around the world, but it tended to penetrate no deeper than the soft outer layer of blubber. Early hunters in India include the Mincopie people, aboriginal inhabitants of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, who have used harpoons with long cords for fishing since early times. Copper harpoons were known to the seafaring Harappans well into antiquity. 203 BC – 120 BC), in his Histories, describes hunting for swordfish by using a harpoon with a barbed and detachable head. An early example can be found in the Bible in Job 41:7 ( NIV): "Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?" The Greek historian Polybius (c. There are references to harpoons in ancient literature though, in most cases, the descriptions do not go into detail.
Cosquer Cave in Southern France contains cave art over 16,000 years old, including drawings of seals which appear to have been harpooned. Later, in Japan, spearfishing with poles (harpoons) was widespread in palaeolithic times, especially during the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods.
As the earliest known harpoons, these weapons were made and used 90,000 years ago, most likely to spear catfishes. In the 1990s, harpoon points, known as the Semliki harpoons or the Katanda harpoons, were found in the Katanda region in Zaire (called the Democratic Republic of the Congo today). "Manner in which Natives of the East Coast strike turtle." Near Cooktown, Australia.
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