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Saturday, July 4, 2009 - Planting our first bed (with my mother-in-law) and doing a little flintknapping!

Flintknapping, pipe-making and Flex bows by Practical Primitive

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Just about finished with the comparative collection,... by Vision Quest Arts ~

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Just about finished with the comparative collection, that’s a lot of #arrowheads and #knives and #spear #points Working on sending reproductions and replicas… This is a huge order, trying to get things organized.

#historic #reproductions #replicas #artifactreplications #flintknapping #smallbusiness #crafts #comparativecollection #museumdisplay #madetoorder #boyscouts #hunting #arrowheads #lithics #paleoindian #paleolithic #archaic #woodland #paleo #archaic #woodland ift.tt/29SpzRh

How about some of that #dragonglass this will be up for sale on... by Vision Quest Arts ~

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How about some of that #dragonglass this will be up for sale on visionquestarts etsy site tomorrow morning, if anyone wants it before I put it up there let me know. $200.00 fluted both sides #got7 #flintknapping #goldstone #paleo #artspearhead. #notforuse #arrowheadart #indirectpercussion #sharpknife #knife #knifesale #crafts ift.tt/2dceby1

New eyes to see old stone tools made by hand by G Witteveen

Doubtless there were other useful tools made from things like bone, antler, teeth, wood, spines, and so on, but only the stone things normally survive time. Sometimes a watery environment starved of oxygen (anerobic) and thus hosting no fungus or bacteria will hold human-made materials like clothing, leather, or indeed bodies. But usually the oldest things made by human hands are the large and small tools shown here like a toolbox.

More accurately, though, probably these come from many different centuries and come from dispersed locations, sometimes from stone that is nearby, but sometimes from material traded from a long distance. So what looks like one person's well-stocked tool cabinet shown here behind glass, is more likely the hard-fought treasures of many different researchers in diverse locations and time horizons. Rather than to view them as a category of "stone tools, large" or "stone tools, small," it is better to see each one as a creative action: one person's quick one-off job, or a learner's trial piece, or maybe one coveted and passed from parent to child for several generations before being broken, lost, stolen, or discarded. Some of these may have had long working lives, but others may have been used only on a single occasion - a tool knocked into usable shape, then discarded.

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snake 4 by Robert Roberts

Flint handaxe in the sand - IMGP3239 by Sidestone Press

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Crafting: Diederik Pomstra

Photo: Karsten Wentink

My Dad's Tools & Work-2 by James

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I took a shot of my Dad's stuff from the opposite side of the table. His tools are above, his work is in the cases, and I threw in a few of his obsidian chips.

#Flintknapped #microliths by Karl Lee @PrimitiveTechUK @woodlandways awesome! by N Beard

etowah mounds state historic site bartow county georgia by 65mb

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Some type of yellow bird2 by David Quirk

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could someone tell me what kind of bird this is. There are 3 of them around here just alike. verry colorful little dudes.

First try with stone flake by Practical Primitive

indian warrior 2 by Robert Roberts

Large flakes came off the middle preform biface. Might make a... by Vision Quest Arts ~

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Large flakes came off the middle preform biface. Might make a hardaway point #northcarolina #rhyolite #flintknapping #preform #hardaway #projectilepoint #paleo #paleoindian #paleolithic #experimental archaeology #crafts ift.tt/2iRdXlk

Flintknapping 1 by CMRLS Photos