Captioned: "War was not the only purpose for which these javelins were used by the men of the Iron Epoch. Hunting, too, was carried on by means of these missile weapons. The bow and the thonged javelin constituted the hunting weapons of this epoch." There is archeological evidence that javelins and throwing sticks were already in use by the last phase of the lower Paleolithic. They were manufactured with the maximum thickness and weight situated at the front end of the wooden shaft. The frontal center of gravity suggests that these pole weapons were used as javelins. Caption excerpted from "Primitive Man" by Louis Figuier, 1871.