La maza al principio era una simple vara o garrote con un extremo más corto en el que se engastaba la roca que constituía la parte pesada y contundente. Con el paso de los siglos evolucionó a las típicas armas totalmente metálicas, cuya cabeza de armas disponía de trinchadoras "cuchillas" o "aletas", repartidas geométricamente, a la que se denominó maza de armas por su finalidad militar. Esta cabeza de armas solía estar hecha de materiales más pesados o baratos, como el bronce, plomo o hierro, reforzándose luego con cuchillas aceradas y dando al conjunto formas hexagonales, octogonales, etc.

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A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful blows. A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel. The head of a military mace can be shaped with flanges or knobs to allow greater penetration of plate armour. The length of maces can vary considerably. The maces of foot soldiers were usually quite short (two or three feet, or seventy to ninety centimetres). The maces of cavalrymen were longer and thus better suited for blows delivered from horseback. Two-handed maces could be even larger. Maces are rarely used today for actual combat, but a large number of government bodies (for instance, the British House of Commons and the U.S. Congress), universities and other institutions have ceremonial maces and continue to display them as symbols of authority. They are often paraded in academic, parliamentary or civic rituals and processions.

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