Not that I am aware of.

I have study weapons and weaponry from every continent on the planet that has a native human civilization and many of the cultures on those continents and can fairly conclusively state that everyone used spears.

What gets interesting is the amount of VARIETY in just the types of spear there are. You are correct that it is a simple weapon, but consider the African tribal spears as compared to to those of the Roman Legionaires.

The spear as a weapon was the king of battle for a VERY long time. Spear and shield in formation is a powerful weapon combination because it wasn't very expensive to produce, didn't require a lot of training, and was very effective.

However, if your knowledge of how spears are and were used comes largely from D&D you probably have a very underwhelming appreciation for how effective they are.

In single combat, unless your opponent has something that functions as an equalizer, spears are like having a cheat code against most creatures anywhere near human sized or other humans armed with shorter weapons.

Spears are the weapon that man used to conquer everything that wasn't other men all over the planet.

We hunted species to extinction with spears. Developed almost everything we are as a species today with spears.

And they pre-date written history.

Which makes sense. It is such an intuitive concept that a spear would make sense to create in almost any climate or situation where one COULD be created.

Your jokes about spears are more accurate than you know. The ancestor to the Bow and Arrow, although possibly also contemporary with it in development, is the atl-atl, a weapon for throwing spears further than we can by hand.

The bow, in its simplest form, does the same thing. The rapier isn't invented till the end of the 16th century so by comparison it is a modern high tech weapon. It is a sword that tries to get some of the advantages of a spear.

Which makes since because it is a form of the spear, known as the pike, that, along with firearms, saw the end of the age of armored knights on the battlefield.

The spear was used in some form, as a bayonet, all the way up in to the Global War on Terror.

So it is the weapon with the single longest service life of anything on the planet, and it is indeed likely the weapon from which all others are derived.

Firearms are a distinct change in weaponry from the spear, but especially early muskets and arquebuses are just really long range exploding spears. Especially with mass firing formations that were popular up until WW1 and repeating firearms REALLY changed things.