This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history.

Used equally in melee and thrown

• Migration Period spear

Normally melee

• Bayonet (when fixed to a Long gun)

Asia

• Arbir
• Bambu Runcing
• Dangpa
• Gichang
• Hoko yari
• Ji
• Kama-yari
• Qiang
• Sibat
• Trishula
• Yari
• Naginata
• Assegai

Europe

Elsewhere

• Hoeroa (Māori, New Zealand)
• Iklwa (Zulu)
• Makrigga (Zande)
• Tepoztopilli (Aztec)

Normally used from horseback

• Barcha
• Kontos
• Lance
• Xyston

Normally thrown

• Harpoon
  • One flue harpoon
  • Two flue harpoon

Europe

Elsewhere

• Assegai (Africa)
• Djerid (Asia Minor, India and Africa)
• Toggling harpoon (Americas)

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)