Flintknapping : : Making and Understanding Stone Tools /

Flintknapping : : Making and Understanding Stone Tools / / John C. Whittaker.

Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological persp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Whittaker, John C.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1994
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 2 FLINTKNAPPING: BASIC PRINCIPLES
  • 3 A BRIEF HISTORY OF FLINTKNAPPING
  • 4 RAW MATERIALS
  • 5 SAFETY
  • 6 HARD-HAMMER PERCUSSION
  • 7 PRESSURE FLAKING
  • 8 SOFT-HAMMER PERCUSSION AND BIFACES
  • 9 BLADES AND FLUTING
  • 10 USING STONE TOOLS
  • 11 ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF STONE TOOLS
  • APPENDIX RESOURCES FOR KNAPPERS
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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