Sudanese spearheads with handles & arrow heads???

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Sudanese spearheads with handles & arrow heads???

18th May 2006, 06:39 PM	#9
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	A nonsense aproach. One of the methods of cattle slaughter, already banned, was by means of a metal point ( choupa in portuguese ), shaped like a spear with a handle, for pricking the animal rachidian bulb. Could these handle spears be the African equivalent, for either ritual or functional slaughter ?

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