Harpoon technology used for whale and seal hunting
Modern Inuit toggling harpoon head used for seal hunting. On the harpoon handle.Modern Inuit toggling harpoon head used for seal hunting. Off the harpoon handle.
The toggling harpoon is an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown. Unlike earlier harpoon versions which had only one point, a toggling harpoon has a two-part point. One half of the point is firmly attached to the thrusting base, while the other half of the point is fitted over this first point like a cap and attached to the rest of the point with sinew or another string-like material. When the harpoon is thrust into an animal, the top half of the point detaches and twists horizontally into the animal under the skin, allowing hunters to haul the animal to ship or shore. This harpoon technology lodges the toggling head of the harpoon underneath both the animal's skin and blubber, and instead lodges the point in the muscle, which also prevents the harpoon slipping out.
The togglingharpoon is an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown. Unlike earlier harpoon versions which had only one point...
with barb or toggling claws, allowing the fishermen or hunters to use an attached rope or chain to pull and retrieve the animal. A harpoon can also be...
Look up toggle or toggling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Toggle may refer to: Toggle mechanism Toggle switch Togglingharpoon, an ancient weapon...
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red ochre, a Nicoleño harpoon tip, glass projectile points and metal artifacts, and several Native Alaskan togglingharpoon tips. In 2012, Navy archaeologist...
advanced, introducing more specialized barb fish spears and composite togglingharpoons. Other technology was used as well, including nets and weirs. Trade...
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whale boats were rowed from the shore, and if the whale was successfully harpooned and lanced to death, it was towed ashore, flensed (i.e., its blubber was...
Ovrag site. Various stone and ivory tools were found, including a togglingharpoon. Radiocarbon dating shows the human inhabitation roughly coeval with...
sea mammals. Various stone and ivory tools were found, including a toggleharpoon, used for hunting sea mammals. The emergence of hunting sea mammals...
ways of processing food were introduced. Material remains include togglingharpoons, netweights, ground slate points, nets, ulus (chopping knife). The...
population in the seas. Whales are killed at sea often using explosive harpoons, which puncture the skin of a whale and then explode inside its body. Anti-whaling...
The Dorset people continued Paleo-Eskimo traditions, such as using togglingharpoons and kept a small breed of dog. In addition to seal and walrus, they...
Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia) Thule people Tlingit language Togglingharpoon Totem pole Travois Treaty of 1818 Treaty of Fort Niagara Treaty of...
introduce to Greenland such technological innovations as dog sleds and togglingharpoons. There is an account of contact and conflict with the Norse population...
technologies available, such as the winter harpoons and summer harpoons. Winter harpoons, such as the togglingharpoon, were made of wood, iron, and brass....
(Ukraine) settlement which reached 15,000–18,000 inhabitants. 4130 BC: Togglingharpoons are invented somewhere in eastern Siberia, spreading south into Japan...
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