#flintknapping

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Tools Selection, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland

[truetotradition]

Kulupeč means “I chip flint”

[femmedinfire]

finally getting back into the swing of things

[culturesingularity]

PSA: do not contaminate natural sites with modern flintknapping waste!

Household trash is a good disposal method, since nobody will ever mistake a 21st-century landfill for an ancient workshop. Failing that, always bury your stone tool waste with some modern coins and wood ash (for carbon dating).

How to make an Otzi the Iceman Flint Dagger

from Shawn Woods

[deadstonemasonssociety]

New research suggests flintknapping is far more dangerous than previously understood. And for early humans who were without the modern conveniences of hospitals, antibiotics, treated water and band-aids, a more severe cut could get infected and be life-threatening.

"Knapping injuries were a risk past peoples were willing to take"

[hylianengineer]

Hopping on the weirdly specific poll train!

[homesteadsissies]

Our Visit to the 26th Bois D'Arc Primitive Skills Gathering and Knap-In

We are already looking forward to next year!

[l3irdl3rain]

Btw. Completely off topic from my creatures but my friend’s husband has a YouTube channel where he showcases his flintknapping and talks about archaeology and what not. Not sure if that’s up anyone’s alley but figured I’d shout it out!!!

[thesilicontribesman]

Neolithic Tools and Materials Photoset 2, Recreated Neolithic Roundhouses, Stonehenge Visitor Centre, nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire

[truetotradition]

Big rainbow obsidian knife by Chumash artist Steven Saffold

[femmedinfire]

i may be dropping out of college, but it looks like i have a Lot of material to work with when i get home

[gingerbeer-queer]

I found a paper that reviewed a bunch of academic data and first-hand experimental accounts of flintknapping to determine the risks involved in stone tool production.

And holy shit the first third of the article is just increadably graphic descriptions of people mutilating themselves accidentally! It's fucking wild you guys!

[uwlmvac]

Though archaeologists analyze individual artifacts, they want to understand how they relate to other artifacts, from the scale of an excavation unit or feature up to the entire site and even the wider region. A group of related artifacts is called an assemblage. The artifacts might be from the same site, or part of a site, or made from the same material, such as lithics or ceramics. These lithic artifacts made of silicified sandstone all came from the same unit during investigations at a site in west-central Wisconsin. The top left is a projectile point tip and midsection that seems to have been beveled from resharpening. It could date to the Archaic tradition. The top center is a drill. The top right and whole bottom row are Madison Triangular points, which likely date to the Late Woodland tradition. They were part of the lithic assemblage, which also included debitage (waste flakes and tiny chunks or shatter from flintknapping), microdebitage (smaller flakes and shatter, typically less than ¼ inch), modified flakes, and cores in the same unit and other units at the site. Taken together, the artifacts in the lithic assemblage suggest people at the site were making stone tools from the early stages of production, as shown by cores, flakes, and modified flakes, to finished implements, indicated by flakes and microdebitage from fine work to finish the edges of tools.

[yorkiegregg]

I want to be back out again to flintknap some more so bad and I realize how stereotypically human I look when I say this lol. I can’t sleep because I literally want to make stone tools that bad

[kaiasky]

If i were a crow or a chimp or elephant or whatever i think I would see humans talking or using technology and I'd be like. "shit dude why didn't i think of that, i gotta get on that". i think we should check in on elephants in 1000 years and see if they've learned flintknapping and language and stuff

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Stone Tool Selection, Corinium Museum, Cirencester