American Flintknappers : : Stone Age Art in the Age of Computers / / John C. Whittaker.
Making arrowheads, blades, and other stone tools was once a survival skill and is still a craft practiced by thousands of flintknappers around the world. In the United States, knappers gather at regional "knap-ins" to socialize, exchange ideas and material, buy and sell both equipment and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Coming to the Knap-in
- 2 Making Stone Tools: The World’s Oldest Craft
- 3 From Fakes and Experiments to Knap-ins: The Roots of Modern Flintknapping
- 4 The Knap-in: People and Organization
- 5 Knappers at the Knap-in
- 6 Status and Stones
- 7 Art, Craft, or Reproduction: Knapper Esthetics
- 8 Can’t Never Have Too Much Flint: The Lore of Stone
- 9 Modern Stone Age Economics
- 10 Knappers, Collectors, Archaeologists: Ethics and Conflicts
- 11 Silicon and Society
- Appendix A Knapper Mail Survey Questionnaire
- Appendix B Fall 1966 Fort Osage Knap-in Registration
- Appendix C New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1994
- Appendix D New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1996
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index