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flintknapping clovis chapter 1 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 580 seconds I show both hammerstone fluting and horozontal antler punch fluting. Steps in building a preform with hammerstones, platform prep. techniques, and ways to work around problems in material. Related: arrowhead, clovis, flintknapping, hammerstone |
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Flaking arrow point part 2 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 588 seconds taking a flake of chert and shaping and flaking a small arrow point Related: american, archaeology, archery, arrow, experimental, flintknapping, hunting, native, skill, survival, wilderness |
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Cutting antler and flaking an Arrowpoint part 1 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 500 seconds Shows method of cutting antler and making pressureflakers as well as flaking small arrow points Related: archaeology, archery, arrowhead, artifact, bow, chert, deer, hunting, primitive, shed, skill, survival, tail, technology, white |
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hammerstone clovis chapter 3 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 597 seconds flintknapping is the process of breaking rocks to make tools, a practice that has been in use for over two million years. This is a demonstration of possible knapping techniques used by some of the early americans. If you are interested in primitive skills, archaeology, or just have a fascination of the past you might find some of this video series interesting Related: archaeology, arrowheads, blade, chert, clovis, flint, flintknapping, hammerstone, paleo, silex |
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Caddo blade Part 4 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 577 seconds later percussion work in making a thin, wide biface. Shows technique of using back edge support and striking flakes. Shows how I use support on the flake surface as well as when I let the flakes come off free. Related: aboriginal, anthropology, arrowheads, buffalo, hunting, knife, lithics, survival |
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Soft hammer percussion Caddo Blade Part 1 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 599 seconds Large biface manufacture with moose antler billets to make a caddo blade. Related: archaeology, arrowheads, blade, caddo, flintknapping, paleoplanet |
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Flintknapping Base first archaic TX PART I Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 597 seconds Hammerstone preform w/ heavy basal thinning, then indirect percussion w/ antler punch. I turn out a clunker in this one, but I was taping, so you get the good with the bad. Related: arrowheads, cave, flintknapping, mears, paul, pedernales, ron, texas |
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Pedernales archaic TX PART II Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 588 seconds blade punching in slot holder, resharpening, and problem signatures. Related: american, archaeology, archaic, atlatl, dinosaur, flake, fossil, history, lithics, native, notch, texas |
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punching western clovis chapter 2 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 376 seconds later stage punch techniques and occasional mis-use of flintknapping terminology. Related: american, archaeology, arrowheads, cervix, chert, clovis, flintknapping, hiltons, knapping, native, paris, silex |
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Punching western clovis chapter 1 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 598 seconds Knapping a western clovis using antler and ivory punches. technique demonstrates full length flaking using a horozontal punch technique inspired by Mike D's technique and modified Related: archaeology, arrowheads, artifact, chert, clovis, fliintknapping, silex |
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sloan dalton pressure flaking series Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 559 seconds This series is roughly an hour and only covers the 4 major sets of pressure flaking on a finished, but stage 1 sloan dalton. Unless you are super into this kind of thing, you probably will want to only watch half of chapters 1 and 6. I kept it long though for the few people I know will really benefit from having the whole thing together. Related: archaeology, arrowheads, dalton, flaking, flint, knapping, pressure, site, sloan |
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Cow Bone Clovis Part 2 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 593 seconds Shows fluting prep...w/ the bone. I don't talk in this series but tried to just show close up shots of edge turning and isolated platforms. I get tired of hearing myself talk while editing these videos also, so I thought the silence would be a nice break for all of us. Udo the dog is in the background. Related: archaeology, lithics, paleo, percussion, rock, stone, tools |
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hammerstone clovis last chapter Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 485 seconds breaking a rock to make a murderous pointy weapon Related: archaeology, camels, clovis, flintknapping, mammoth, mastadon, prehistoric, wooly |
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caddo blade part 2 Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 598 seconds removing cortex, building convexity and setting up for larger flake removals Related: american, archaeology, artifact, caddo, flintknapping, geology, native, silex |
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Spalling raw chunk of chert Posted by: Flintknappingtips
Video duration: 305 seconds This is a method of starting on a chunk of rock to reduce it to usable pieces which will individually be finished into tools. Related: archaeology, experimental, flintknapping, spalling, stone, tools |
