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Signs of restoration to the stonework but also shows evidence of settlement. Even though photo taken from angle the doorway appears to sag.
I might return for another shot with a tripod and check it out.
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Steve Watts, master of primitive technology, shows how it is done. Shot at Archaeology Day on the UNC Chapel Hill campus, October 2009. Steve can be found at the Scheele Museum in Gastonia, NC.
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Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools.
It was August 29, 1911. The new century had passed, the Wild West had been settled, almost all of the Native tribes had been relegated to reservations. The last great confrontation between Natives and Anglos, the Wounded Knee Massacre, was 21 years in the past. On this day, workers at a slaughterhouse in the large Northern California town of Oroville near this spot came across a "wild man", an thin, emaciated, figure, dressed in a simple cloak, hiding in a corner; starving and freezing, he had attempted to take food, and now he had been caught.
News about the discovery traveled fast, and thousands of spectators arrived to take a look. The Native spoke a language no one, not even Natives from nearby communities understood. The sheriff locked the figure in the jail as authorities tried to figure out what to do. Eventually, two anthropologists from the University of California arrived, Alfred Kroeber and Thomas Waterman. They had heard about an incident three years earlier when a surveying party had come across a "stone age encampment" and looted the campsite. Now the two took custody of the "wild man" and took him down to Berkeley.
After much effort, Krober and Waterman managed to communicate with their charge. He was a Yahi, a Native subtribe of the Yana that once numbered some 2000 in the Northern Sacramento Valley before being driven by the Winton into the foothills of Mount Lassen. There they mutually raided against the Winton.
The California Gold Rush changed everything. Miners and ranchers flooded the area, competing for resources and bringing new diseases. The vague but bloody California Indian Wars took their toll. By 1865, the last of the Yahi were believed to have been slaughtered at the Three Knolls Massacre in retaliation for the deaths of three Anglos at Workman's House.
Evidently that had not been the case. When Kroeber and Waterman asked the Native his name, the Native gave the reply,
"I have none, because there were no people to name me,"
The anthropologists named him "Ishi", Yahi for "man", as tribal traditions stated that he not state his own name.
Ishi slowly revealed his sad autobiography. He had been a child at the Three Knolls Massacre, which killed his father, leaping into the river with his mother and around 30 survivors. For the next 50 years, the small band wandered the foothills, evading ranchers and the by now other "locals". Then in 1908 the band, which had shrunk down to four individuals, were surprised by the survey party. The others fled into the hills, but Ishi's mother, old and frail, hid under a blanket. The survey party found her, but proceeded to loot the campsite of all food and "artifacts". Ishi returned to find only his mother, who soon died. The other two Yahi had disappeared, never to be seen again. Thus when Ishi was found three years later in Oroville, he was the last of the Yahi.
By all accounts, Ishi became close friends with Kroeber and Waterman. The two anthropologists worked with Ishi to uncover the Yahi language and traditions, including ceremonies, woodcraft and fishing hooks and archery but also helped him adapt to life in the modern world. Ishi found he enjoyed sitting in chairs and visiting various cities via trolley. However the original issue of disease susceptibility remained unchanged, and Ishi was frequently sick. Only five years after his contact with the modern world, Ishi succumbed to tuberculosis. With his death ended the final horrific effects of European contact on the Natives of the New World.
The story does not quite end here. Ishi's body was cremated according to his wishes, but contrary to them and despite efforts from his friends, his brain was removed and pickled by Saxon Pope, another friend of Ishi's and a Professor of Medicine at San Francisco. Ishi's brain was stored at the Smithsonian until 2000, when as part of the National Museum of the American Indian Act of 1989 his brain was returned to the Yana descendants of the Redding Rancheria and Pit River tribes, whereupon it disappears from records. Pope became the father of modern bowhunting, using the traditions passed down from Ishi. Ishi also remains a foremost authority in the flintknapping community. Ishi Wilderness Area near Lassen and the Ishi Courtyard of Berkeley are named after him.
South Oroville, Oroville, California
Visitors to the Pequot Museum experienced a 17th c. military and civilian living-history encampment from the Pequot War (1636-1637) and King Philip’s War (1675-1677) periods. Including musket and bow shooting demonstrations; campfire cooking; lithic tool making; flint knapping demonstrations; period blacksmithing; and English militia drills.
Visitors also had the opportunity to listen to U.S. Army Major (Dr.) Jason Warren discuss his book, Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676. The book refocuses Connecticut’s role in the war and discusses how the colony achieved success by establishing a policy of moderation towards the Native groups living within its borders.
Supported in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
One of the things we like about working in metals is keeping centuries-old techniques alive. We work a lot in the computer world and old world technologies brings a balance (of sorts) to our lives. Not content to stop at the 12th century, we go all the way back to the neanderthal period to dabble in flint knapping. The photo above is our tool kit.
Visitors to the Pequot Museum experienced a 17th c. military and civilian living-history encampment from the Pequot War (1636-1637) and King Philip’s War (1675-1677) periods. Including musket and bow shooting demonstrations; campfire cooking; lithic tool making; flint knapping demonstrations; period blacksmithing; and English militia drills.
Visitors also had the opportunity to listen to U.S. Army Major (Dr.) Jason Warren discuss his book, Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676. The book refocuses Connecticut’s role in the war and discusses how the colony achieved success by establishing a policy of moderation towards the Native groups living within its borders.
Supported in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
St Mary the Virgin is the Parish Church of East Preston and Kingston and is located at the parish boundary of East Preston with Rustington, on the corner of Vicarage Lane and Station Road.
Diocesan ID: AA1011
Built: 1150
Style of worship: Modern Catholic
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In trying to learn how to #flute #clovis #paleoindian #points I have found a way to drive far far flakes on very rough limestone material, they DID make points from rock here in #newengland just as beautiful as elsewhere with better rock. It just seems to be a bit more difficult as the rock isn’t as agreeable. This is chert from upstate #newyork #flint. I am not so concerned about getting the style right as I am getting the flutes to run on this tough stuff, I think I finally figured it, flute or channel flake on the left…. Point on the right. A friend gave me some advice that seems to be right on the $. #paleo #paleolithic #archaeology #anthropology #bushcraft #outdoorsman #survival #survivalist #knife #flintknapper #crafts #primitive #limestone #paleotechnology #visionquest #caveman #flintknapping #chipping #aboriginal ift.tt/29Zw6WZ
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Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools. Tools and rock pieces are laid out on a gray tarp.
I loved these boots!
My flint knapping photos were taken on a day course with John and Val Lord. They have a website here:
John has also written a book that's very useful as a beginner:
www.flintknapping.co.uk/shop.html
And John's son Will is also an expert in flint knapping and excellent teacher. He also runs courses, and will teach hide working, prehistoric jewellery making, bow-making and so forth as well.
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Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited
NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools. A woman holds up a gray rock used to chip at obsidian.
Mine are going to look like this one day. I already have loads of scars...perhaps a little unladylike, but I still think hard working hands have a beauty of their own.
I think John was preparing a platform here - using the pebble to grind the sharpest corners down a little and make the platform a little more solid and uniform.
A platform is a surface you make to give yourself something to aim at when it comes to hitting the flint. If the platform isn't right, you can end up breaking what you were trying to make.
My flint knapping photos were taken on a day course with John and Val Lord. They have a website here:
John has also written a book that's very useful as a beginner:
www.flintknapping.co.uk/shop.html
And John's son Will is also an expert in flint knapping and excellent teacher. He also runs courses, and will teach hide working, prehistoric jewellery making, bow-making and so forth as well.
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Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited
This is the Hagood Mill in Pickens County, SC. It has been in operation in some capacity since 1825!!
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One of the “gems” of the South Carolina Upstate can be found three miles north of Pickens. Located just off Highway 178, on Hagood Mill Road, this 1845 gristmill served many generations of rural farm families until its’ closing in the mid-1960’s. In 1972 Hagood Mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1973 the mill and surrounding property were donated to the Pickens County Museum Commission by the J. Hagood Bruce family. Thus began a long off-again, on-again process of restoration culminating with the mill being “back in business” on a monthly basis around Thanksgiving 1997 with the help of present miller, Alan Warner.
Since that time the mill has operated, rain or shine, the third Saturday of every month. Within a year of this new beginning, and to extend the programming of the Pickens County Museum of Art & History, these third Saturday events become mini-festivals of traditional arts, folklife and music. Presently there are more than twenty regular demonstrators who share their skills in milling, blacksmithing, moonshining, spinning, weaving, quilting, woodcarving, flintknapping and more. Additionally, most months have an acoustic musical entertainment theme ranging from bluegrass to blues to gospel. Numerous SC Folk Heritage Award winners have been featured and recorded for the museum’s archives. Autumn offerings at Hagood Mill have become a “tradition” with the September Fiddlin’ Convention, October Storytelling Festival and November Native American Festival drawing a large crowd each year.
The mill site has grown physically too. When first re-opened in 1997, there was just the mill building with its 20 foot overshot waterwheel and a small barn. Since that time, the barn was remodeled into a family farm exhibit, a visitor building with gift shop was constructed, a three-quarter mile nature trail was developed, two historic Pickens County log cabins were relocated to the site, a blacksmith shop was built, a moonshine display was added and a large outdoor stage as well. Recently, a complete cotton ginning operation was donated and brought to the site for restoration and the county’s last steel bridge, the 64 ft. Prater’s Creek Bridge, was relocated to the back of the property for restoration and eventual placement over the creek to allow for expansion and development of the several acres on that side currently inaccessible by vehicle.
In 2003, perhaps the most exiting development at the site occurred when Native American petroglyphs (rock carvings) were discovered on a large, thirty foot long rock near the mill. Difficult to see and easy to miss in the bright sunshine, these ancient artworks “stand up” when lit from the side at night. They were found by a team member of the archaeologist Tommy Charles, while conducting a ten-year “SC Rock Art Survey” of the state for the SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
In his survey, Mr. Charles has documented over 300 petroglyph sites in the state, with the majority being found in the upstate counties of Oconee, Pickens and Greenville. Photos of some of the rock art can be found in the Native American exhibit at the Pickens County Museum and in the Pickens County room of the Table Rock State Park Visitor’s Center. Dating of this rock art is impossible. As the Cherokee came to this area around 900 years ago, some of it could have been made by them…or it could be much older and made by predecessors of the Cherokee. Interpretation is also futile. While some images and locations could imply “trail markers,” they are messages meant for someone else at another time. Many could also be “doodles” and “graffiti.” Subjects range from a small number of animals to circles, squares and triangles to strange shapes and to a very few number of human “stick-men.” This is where the Hagood Mill Petroglyph Site weighs in. It is, according to Mr. Charles, “one of the most impressive petroglyph sites (38PN129) discovered in South Carolina. There are seventeen human figures plus a number of abstract motifs carved on the host rock. The human figures represent all but two that have been recorded in South Carolina.”
At present, the Hagood Mill petroglyphs are covered with plastic and dirt to protect them until a 30 ft. by 40 ft. building can by constructed over them for their permanent protection and display. Again, according to Mr. Charles, “It (Hagood Mill) is the only petroglyph site recorded in the state that is located on publicly owned property and accessible to all citizens. By virtue of its ownership and location on a National Register Property, it is at present our state’s only petroglyph site that meets the criteria for long-term preservation and that might simultaneously serve the public as an educational center for Native American rock art.”
While housing and preserving the mill site rock art, this center would also be a gallery for the display of photos of the other petroglyphs in the SC Rock Art Survey, many of which are a long walk up the side of a mountain. It is hoped to start construction on the rock art center in 2007.
In addition to the “3rd Saturday” events, the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center is now open Wed. through Sat. from 10:00 to 4:00 to tour the grounds and to pick up those “mill products.” For more information contact Hagood Mill at 864-898-2936 or the Pickens County Museum at 864-898-5963.
Anasazi? Paiute? Clovis?
Dunno... but "lithic flakes" like this, and the occasional scraper tool, are scattered all over the hillsides in many places in southern Utah. All of these examples are from within a few yards of my back porch. I have yet to find a well-formed "arrowhead" or projective point.
Making a arrowhead out of flint, I baked the flint rock over night in hot coal's buried under the ground it help's to get a flake to work with.
Tom Lucas, who has a working knowledge of ancestral tool making, shared his skill at the historic Miller House during the refuge's centennial weekend. He entertained small groups one afternoon, with some people staying as long as 30 minutes to watch him work.
Credit: USFWS / BJ Baker, National Elk Refuge volunteer
NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools. Two hands hold a piece of black obsidian rock in a glove.
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Tiniest fluted point ever? Has anyone made smaller? Knapped by Jay. #clovis #paleoindian #survival #flintknapping #challenge #paleolithic #flint #chert #traditional #knife #spearfishing #projectilepoint #arrowhead #crafts #earthskills #ancestralskills #selfsufficient #hobbies #history ift.tt/28YP8j8
NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools. Two hands hold up a piece of black obsidian rock.
NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools.
The Embarcadaro, San Francisco, California USA • At the pre-holiday crafts fair, this master flint-knapping, knife maker. I told him I thought these were museum quality, and 10,000 years ago, he would be Emperor.
NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools.
NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools.
Both stones are hard hammers that have flat faces, show signs of great wear, and are likely made of quartzite. Held in the hand, they would have been used in a process known as "flintknapping," wherein the hammer stone strikes a second flint, quartzite, or chert stone, chipping pieces off until the secondary stone takes a more desirable shape. Hammer stones were also used in the process of bifacial reduction, where the secondary stone would be split along a significant portion of its face, creating two useful stones from one.
18) 4" X 3 3/4" X 2 1/2"
19) 3 1/4" X 2 1/4" X 2 1/4"
Likely donated by Professor George E. Woodbine (d.1953) of Yale University
ACC# 80.240.18 & 19
See other indigenous peoples tools, utensils and weapons at flic.kr/s/aHskTPFNZd.
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
North entrance and vestibule. I think the buttress is a later addition, maybe 15th Century.
St Mary the Virgin is the Parish Church of East Preston and Kingston and is located at the parish boundary of East Preston with Rustington, on the corner of Vicarage Lane and Station Road.
Diocesan ID: AA1011
Built: 1150
Style of worship: Modern Catholic
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Eccentric flint scepters with profile figures. Maya. (Guatemala, 7th Century AD and El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico, 711 AD). From the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico. Special Exhibit, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA. Copyright 2018, James A. Ferguson.
The art of flintknapping is a skill that has been forgotten since the end of the Bronze Age. Master technologist and archaeologist Karl Lee demonstrated how to make arrowheads, spearheads, hand-axes and scrapers from brittle flint. Our members had the opportunity to make their every very own Paleolithic stone age tool.
The art of flintknapping is a skill that has been forgotten since the end of the Bronze Age. Master technologist and archaeologist Karl Lee demonstrated how to make arrowheads, spearheads, hand-axes and scrapers from brittle flint. Our members had the opportunity to make their every very own Paleolithic stone age tool.
This past weekend, my husband and I drove to Oregon to go to my younger daughter's graduation, and we stopped in a restaurant in John Day for brunch. The restaurant had a mixed western/outdoorsy theme, with old sinew-tied wooden snow shoes and wooden skis hanging on the wall next to Western prints and fishing lure guides, but what caught my eye was a display on the half wall between sections of the dining room. There I saw the most amazingly beautiful, contemporary obsidian knives with antler handles. They were exquisite! I asked our waitress about them, and she told me that they had been made by a local man who had worked for the forest service for years. She also told me that when she was a young girl, this man had come to her school and given demonstrations. Sadly, he passed away last year, so I could not look him up to pick his brain. I did take some pictures of his beautiful work, though, so I could share it with you.
Photo of volunteer expert demonstrating flintknapping at the 2017 Archaeology Roadshow - Harney County, June 10, 2017, by Greg Shine, BLM.
On Saturday, June 13, 2017, BLM employees from the Burns District and the OR/WA State Office participated in the annual Archaeology Roadshow – Harney County event in Hines City Park in Hines, Oregon.
The Archaeology Roadshow, hosted by universities, tribes, government agencies, private companies and avocational organizations, is a popular outreach opportunity where field experts can share knowledge and passion for humanity’s past with the public.
This event – featuring 28 tables of exhibitors – was the first Archaeology Roadshow event ever held outside of the Portland State University campus, and was largely coordinated by Burns District Archaeologist Scott Thomas.
"The Harney County Archaeology Roadshow was an amazing success," said Thomas. "We made some new friends and saw many phenomenal artifacts. I can't wait for next year's second annual archaeology roadshow!"
With Scott Thomas, BLM staff members participating in the event included Carolyn Temple, Chuck Morlan, Tom Wilcox, Tara Thissell, and Greg Shine.
In addition, OR/WA State Office staff Kristen Martine, Dave Johnson, and Greg Shine served over the past year as key members of the core planning committee, tasked with organizing the two events in 2017.
For more information about the Archaeology Roadshow, visit www.pdx.edu/anthropology/archaeology-roadshow.
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Working on some archaic projectile point arrowhead replicas. #flintknapping #flint #chert #replication #reproduction #museumquality #archaic #arrowhead #atlatl #work ift.tt/29lr7Uk #crafts ift.tt/29f3KsB
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Crafting: Diederik Pomstra
Photo: Karsten Wentink
This past weekend, my husband and I drove to Oregon to go to my younger daughter's graduation, and we stopped in a restaurant in John Day for brunch. The restaurant had a mixed western/outdoorsy theme, with old sinew-tied wooden snow shoes and wooden skis hanging on the wall next to Western prints and fishing lure guides, but what caught my eye was a display on the half wall between sections of the dining room. There I saw the most amazingly beautiful, contemporary obsidian knives with antler handles. They were exquisite! I asked our waitress about them, and she told me that they had been made by a local man who had worked for the forest service for years. She also told me that when she was a young girl, this man had come to her school and given demonstrations. Sadly, he passed away last year, so I could not look him up to pick his brain. I did take some pictures of his beautiful work, though, so I could share it with you.
This is the the well cover at the stone house. First glance it seems like the typical concrete, but it is fashioned from stone even the inside circle. Being familiar with native American flintknapping, drilling or punching a hole through stone is difficult without breaking. Also surviving 160 years without breaking. Anyone knows about these let me know. Surely this more common in the old northeast.
Winter Solstice Celebration 2015 at Mission San Luis, Tallahassee, FL
(please credit Mission San Luis, Florida Department of State)
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#solutrean #flintknapping #crafts #lostknowledge #chert #flint #novaculite #primitive #knife #spear #ancientknowledge ift.tt/2glYYiu
We were luck to be able to have John Lord demonstration the ancient art of flint working as part of the 'Wayland Heritage Discovery Day'. The speed and skill with which he works the flint is amazing. Visit his website to find out more.
Here, on one coffee table, is about 12,000 years of history. the iPad (on which I was writing this morning's tai chi journal entry) is a few years old, but based on technologies that date back (in some cases) to the dawn of the computing era, in other cases only 5-10 years. The iPad is in a synthetic rubber case (late 1800s AD), on top of a formica(1950s)-and-plywood(ancient Egyptian) table. NExt to the iPad is a ceramic plate (a tech dated to the 3rd century bc) with a paper (150 BC) atop that, filled with coffee (1300s AD?).
And surmounting all of those is the knife my friend Mark brought to show me this morning, made using 50,000y years of stone age technology — how to shape flint, how to bind it to a bone or antler hilt, etc.
I love taking pictures like this because it's an indicator of just how far we have come as a species, and the full range of possibilities of tool use we've learned to explore.
But to me, it's also a signal of just how wide a range of ideas is represented by the words "technology." I mean, everything in this photo was once high tech — even my hand in the lower left. Everything here was once something impossible to do or even conceive-of, until we broke through the barrier: of heat, of miniaturization, of flint-knapping, of plastic-manufacture... what's holding you back from learning the current technology? Regarding it as alien?
Winter Solstice Celebration 2015 at Mission San Luis, Tallahassee, FL
(please credit Mission San Luis, Florida Department of State)
This arrow head was made by Daniel A. Pierce, a young Native American, in the old flintknapping technique.
I caught it in a sterling and fine silver setting in the needle lace technique using genuine amber beads.
Here's John demonstrating pressure flaking. I liked pressure flaking - I found it easier than smashing lumps off larger pieces of flint.
My flint knapping photos were taken on a day course with John and Val Lord. They have a website here:
John has also written a book that's very useful as a beginner:
www.flintknapping.co.uk/shop.html
And John's son Will is also an expert in flint knapping and excellent teacher. He also runs courses, and will teach hide working, prehistoric jewellery making, bow-making and so forth as well.
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