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Flintknapping a stone tool Knapping is the shaping of flint , chert , obsidian , or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools , strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper.
Errett Callahan was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on December 17, 1937.Callahan’s interest in the outdoors and Native American lifeways began quite early on. As a boy Callahan was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and it was as a Boy Scout that he was first exposed to the skills and techniques that the Native Americans used to survive in the outdoors. [1]
Israel Museum The Levallois technique of flint-knapping The Levallois technique ( IPA: [lÉ™.va.lwa] ) is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to 400,000 [ 1 ] years ago during the Middle Palaeolithic period.
The Levallois technique of flint-knapping. In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts.
Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England.It lies 8 km (5.0 mi) north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England.It was worked between c. 2600 and c. 2300 BCE, although production may have continued through the Bronze and Iron Ages and later, owing to the low cost of flint compared with metals.
In archaeology, a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core.This process of reducing the stone and producing the blades is called lithic reduction.
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from around 35,000 years ago, across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.