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Jicarilla Apache Author Veronica Tiller shares a story with 4th grade students from the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Sangre de Cristo School.
NPS/Patrick Myers
In May 2024, Great Sand Dunes hosted a very special and unique two-day field trip with 4th grade students from the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Dulce, NM and Sangre de Cristo School in Mosca, CO. Students threw spears with atlatls, extracted magnetite from the sand, learned about traditional crafts and flintknapping, listened to traditional stories, and hiked to a 500-year-old ponderosa pine that was peeled for food and medicine by tribal ancestors in the 19th century. Sessions were all led by Jicarilla Apache tribal members, including elders, artists, and Great Sand Dunes Park Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Rocky Mountain PBS filmed the field trip as part of the creation of a curriculum about Jicarilla Apache culture, ecological practices, and history for Colorado 4th grade students.
Park Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation holds a real mammoth tooth as he describes the ways his ancient ancestors hunted Ice Age animals.
NPS/Patrick Myers
In May 2024, Great Sand Dunes hosted a very special and unique two-day field trip with 4th grade students from the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Dulce, NM and Sangre de Cristo School in Mosca, CO. Students threw spears with atlatls, extracted magnetite from the sand, learned about traditional crafts and flintknapping, listened to traditional stories, and hiked to a 500-year-old ponderosa pine that was peeled for food and medicine by tribal ancestors in the 19th century. Sessions were all led by Jicarilla Apache tribal members, including elders, artists, and Great Sand Dunes Park Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Rocky Mountain PBS filmed the field trip as part of the creation of a curriculum about Jicarilla Apache culture, ecological practices, and history for Colorado 4th grade students.
Jicarilla Apache 4th grade students use a magnet to extract black magnetite from the sand during a presentation by Park Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
NPS/Patrick Myers
In May 2024, Great Sand Dunes hosted a very special and unique two-day field trip with 4th grade students from the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Dulce, NM and Sangre de Cristo School in Mosca, CO. Students threw spears with atlatls, extracted magnetite from the sand, learned about traditional crafts and flintknapping, listened to traditional stories, and hiked to a 500-year-old ponderosa pine that was peeled for food and medicine by tribal ancestors in the 19th century. Sessions were all led by Jicarilla Apache tribal members, including elders, artists, and Great Sand Dunes Park Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Rocky Mountain PBS filmed the field trip as part of the creation of a curriculum about Jicarilla Apache culture, ecological practices, and history for Colorado 4th grade students.
Presenters from the Jicarilla Apache Nation stand with Great Sand Dunes Park Rangers after a day of programs for 4th grade students.
In May 2024, Great Sand Dunes hosted a very special and unique two-day field trip with 4th grade students from the Jicarilla Apache Nation in Dulce, NM and Sangre de Cristo School in Mosca, CO. Students threw spears with atlatls, extracted magnetite from the sand, learned about traditional crafts and flintknapping, listened to traditional stories, and hiked to a 500-year-old ponderosa pine that was peeled for food and medicine by tribal ancestors in the 19th century. Sessions were all led by Jicarilla Apache tribal members, including elders, artists, and Great Sand Dunes Park Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Rocky Mountain PBS filmed the field trip as part of the creation of a curriculum about Jicarilla Apache culture, ecological practices, and history for Colorado 4th grade students.
Community Partner Southeast Archeological Center operated a flintknapping/arrowhead making demonstration at Open House 2014. Early Native Americans mastered the science behind making stone arrowheads that they used for hunting.
A flint artefact, found within an assemblage of 212 pieces recovered during routine excavations at Herne Bay, Kent.
A flint artefact, found within an assemblage of 212 pieces recovered during routine excavations at Herne Bay, Kent.
A flint artefact, found within an assemblage of 212 pieces recovered during routine excavations at Herne Bay, Kent.
This craftsman shows how arrowheads were made by the people of the Etowah Mounds. He and other artists displayed their crafts this past saturday at a special night-time event at the Indian Mounds. Sadly, this particular piece was never finished. It borke unexpectedly as he was working on it, as such things sometimes happen.
Will Lord demonstrating flint knapping.
Will runs courses in a variety of ancient skills:
As do his parents John and Val:
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Flint artefacts, found within an assemblage of 212 pieces recovered during routine excavations at Herne Bay, Kent.
Family at one of 700 quarry pits. Gabriel demonstrates his flintknapping technique. Fisheye perspective.
Silcrete is an indurated soil duricrust formed when silica is dissolved and resolidifies as a cement. It is a hard and resistant material, and though different in origin and nature, appears similar to quartzite. It is common in the arid regions of Australia, often forming the resistant cap rock on features like breakaways.
In Australia, silcrete was widely used by Aboriginal people for stone tool manufacture, and as such, it was a tradeable commodity, and silcrete tools can be found in areas that have no silcrete groundmass at all, similar to the European use of flint. Tools made out of silcrete are difficult to make with flintknapping techniques. This has led some researchers to conclude that silcrete may have been heated to aid with creating proper flakes prior to knapping. This process may have been the first use of so called pyrotechnology by early mankind.
In Africa, researchers have determined that two types of silcrete tools were developed between 60,000 and 80,000 years ago.