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Now I'm no expert in ancient weaponry, but that looks more like a sharpened stick than a spear to me.
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I agree, I think spears are supposed to have a hardened end. I know I've seen other examples of early spears without an end attachments, but they usually had an end that has been hardened by carbonizing the point over a fire.
The one end looks discolored so might've been fire-hardened