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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/2jkwpDD
A Jicarilla Apache student throws a long dart with an atlatl, assisted by Great Sand Dunes Ranger Jaiden Garcia of the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
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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.
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Knapped from a rare type of flint from upstate New York near Catskills. It’s called normanskill chert. The Paleolithic people used this material for their spear points 12,000 years ago. It’s wild that I managed to find some of this same material and flintknapped this beautiful fluted point! #flintknapping #chert #paleo #paleoindian #arrowhead #crafts #stoneage #paleolithic #lithic #flint ift.tt/2dyQja0
I made these today from volcanic obsidian rock (glass). Wow this stuff is really sharp and harder to work than flint. Its like a razer blade. But it has a beautiful shine and look to it i think. i still need to put some finishing touches on the arrowheads, but just wanted to show you what this stuff looks like.
The navigation limit on the Little Ouse was Brandon in Suffolk. Flintknapping was the dominant business of the area and it is commemorated in the town sign.
Saturday, July 4, 2009 - Planting our first bed (with my mother-in-law) and doing a little flintknapping!
A friend of mine use to work at a automotive windshild factory. He brought me 2 12 pound chunks of glass to make arrowheads from. It should make a few nice ones, even a spear head or two.
Those dips are actually 5000 year old flint mines. They've filled in a lot since then - they used to be about 30 feet deep each. Known as "Grimes Graves" - we weren't able to go down the excavated ones, as it was winter and they were shut.
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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The Southwest Louisiana Flint Knappers set up in the space next to ours and drew quite a few people to buy and to watch their demonstrations. This was in the annual gem show put on by the DeRidder, Louisiana club on November 8 and 9, 2008. Next year they will hold their show in the middle of December, due to our club changing our show dates to the middle of November, for 2009.
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A novaculite blade, easy on my neck injury. For. now I cannot work harder cherts. Have to take it easy. This will be up for sale shortly #paleo #knife #stoneknife #paleoindian #spear #flintknapping #arrowhead #forgottenknowledge #ancientknowledge #crafts #etsy ift.tt/2fXbR2y
In this Masterclass, participants learnt to make primitive utility tools such as hand-axes, scrapers and arrowheads from brittle flint with master flint-knapper, primitive technologist and archaeologist Karl Lee.
Karl started our workshop with a demonstration of the techniques and processes involved in flint-knapping, before setting participants the task of making their own flint tools using ancient tools such as hammer stones. He has over 20 years of experience of teaching the manufacture and use of stone (lithic), bone and wooden tools.
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.
a few that i have done this week. Wow there are some pretty rocks out there in outher states. i wish we had some here in tennessee. I have been buying them from E-bay, and making them into points.Some here have ask me to make a video of how i do this. i might do that soon, but i dont think flickr will let me make a video of that size. it takes me over 2 hours to make one arrowhead but i could give a idea of how i do it. i still might make one some day. Im still new at this and learning.(and i do it just as they did back then)
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#normanskill #arrowhead. I #flintknapping #chert #flint #lithic #bushcraft #survival #crafts ift.tt/2baRq0V
Stone blades. Rapa Nui, Polynesian, 15th Century AD - 18th Century AD. Father Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum, Hanga Roa, Easter island, Chile. Copyright 2018, James A. Glazier.
The dark stone is a Thin Section of Knife River Flint.
Knife River Fling is a lignite coal that turned to rock thousands of years ago. Tiny plant cells are visible in a think section. This organic material gives the stone its distinctive brown color.
Flintnapping Tool Kit
Some archeologists study stone tool making by experimenting with flintknapping. When scientists study the types of fractures produced by different tools and techniques, they can better analyze the materials found at archeological sites.
The bottom bone or antler is a Baton
a soft hammer for thinning and shaping.
-usually made of antler or bone.
Under the picture it says: Bipolar Core Reduction
One method of reducing a cobble flint into workables flakes was to hold the cobble against an anvil stone, and strike ti with a hammerstone. This was done in late prehistoric times, after A.D. 600 when the bow and arrow was introduced.
Arrow points were smaller and less elaborate than spear and dart points. They were made from lflakes, instead of cobbles. With very little work, a flake could be shaped into an arrow point.
According to Wikipedia,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_diving_beetle
the Great Diving Beetle is a voracious predator, hunting insects, tadpoles and small fish in ponds. However, they sometimes come out and fly looking for a new pond, which they find by the reflection of the moon on the surface of the water.
This one was running about in the polytunnel where I was flint knapping. I think it was fooled by the flood lights we had on. We put it out three times, but it kept coming back in! It's standing on a nice piece of sandstone.
Information on Arkive
www.arkive.org/species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_...
suggests that this beetle is a male, as it has the large suction pads on its front legs and the wing case is not ridged.
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.
© Susannah Relf All Rights Reserved
Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited
Triple eagles carved on elk antler w Dasmascus blade and brass guard, exotic wood spacers with complimentary ivory piano key spacers and a fossil mammoth ivory end cap!
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Crafting: Diederik Pomstra
Photo: Karsten Wentink
The Arrow Point was hand chipped using stone tools (Native American Style), it was made by my father using Obsidian Glass. I have used a grinding tool along the sides and tip to make sure it's not to sharp.
Flintknapping is one of the methods by which people work stone into tools. Its is also called Flaking or Chipping. It involves striking or pushing carefully controlled flakes off of the stone being worked. This can be done in a variety of ways, including 'direct percussion' which is simply hitting the rock with another rock (Hard Hammering) or a billet made of antler, wood, or similar material (Soft Hammering). In contrast to direct percussion, there is 'indirect percussion' which makes use of a punch between the rock which is being struck and the hammer doing the striking. The final common method of removing flakes is 'pressure flaking'. Pressure flaking is usually done in the final stages of tool manufacture, by using a pressure flaker made of antler or (more common today) copper. Pressure flaking, in essence, involves 'pushing' flakes off of the piece being worked by the application of force to a precise point on the tool edge.
This is for 1 arrow head pendent the wire is Copper metal. The Arrow Point size is 2 inch length and 1.25 inch width.
This pendent goes great on a leather cord to turn it into a necklace.
Stones and bones. The upper far right is a knife and it's shaped so nicely it fits perfectly in one's right hand without needing a handle; it's comfortable and feels right! There's a tooth, some bone fragments, possibly tools, other stuff.
My dad made all of these. The one in the center is from obsidian he got on a trip to Oregon. Pic was taken outside in the shade but because these stones are so new the light reflected too much, but this is the best I could do.
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Here’s some #southcarolina #rhyolite #spearpoint #arrowhead MAN this stuff is tough. I like how this bifurcated point turned out though. #awesome #crafts #flintknapping #notforbeginners #toughrock #atlatl #paleo #archaic ift.tt/2bWFwnM
This is a orginal spear head from some ancient man that a friend of mine found here in tennessee(collector). He heard of my new found hobbie (flintknapping) the making of arrowheads just as they did years ago. He ask me to fix this point that was broken off at the base. I was really weary of doing this because it was a real artifact, and who am i to chip a stone that had not been touched for over thousands of years. But i fixed it for him anyway and this is the results.
Saturday, July 4, 2009 - Planting our first bed (with my mother-in-law) and doing a little flintknapping! Panorama stitched together from twelve portrait shots, using "Panorama Factory".