#flintknapping

[thesilicontribesman]

Neolithic Flint Dagger Knife with Recreated Handle, Middleton-on-the-Wolds, Museum of Archaeology, Hull, East Yorkshire

[prisma-art-collective]

this monstrosity has been sitting on my desk for months now, when im brave enough ill actually try to finish it

I am So scared of breaking it

[blackcoyot96]

So fact about me. I've been practicing flintknapping aka stone tool making. Ever since I've started my path in archaeology, I already how stone tools help hominins.

[danielapierce]

You can't tell in the photo, but this is Ranbow Obsidian. Purple hues shown best under that sun light!

[truetotradition]

Kulupeč means “I chip flint”

[thecreakingdoor]

Hand-knapped Carnelian arrowhead pendants are now available in my shop. I love the fiery orange of these beautiful stones. Carnelian is an orange-coloured variety of Chalcedony, a mineral of the Quartz family and has a long history, with ancient warriors wearing Carnelian to aid courage and physical power to defeat their enemies. In Egypt it was worn by master architects to show their rank of builder, and alchemists of the Middle Ages used it as a boiling stone to activate the energy of other Chalcedonies. . . . #arrowhead #arrowheadnecklace #carnelian #carnelianjewelry #rusticpendant #protectionamulet #wiccanjewelry #orangejewelry #semipreciousstones #amazonite #warrior #warriorspirit #tribalnecklace #primitive #flintknapping #quartz #quartzjewelry https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd-9XQaNBQr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[unidentifiedmammal]

Flintknapped for the first time last week at Falling Leaves Rendezvous! We used anyler billets to break apart a chunk of obsidian, and then used pressure(?) flaking with an Ishi stick to form the edge. We learned about conchoidal fractures and the cone they create, preparing the platform, etc. No easy task, especially since it was way putside of my comfort zone, but it's a fascinating material and technique to work with.

As I was taught there, Ishi was the source of the vast majority of knowledge we have about flintknapping, and the tool he used was a stick with a nail in it (like the stick with a piece of copper in the end that we used, named an Ishi stick in his honor). This tool is widely used by modern flintknappers.

He was the last of his group, living alone in his cave before he was robbed by explorers, and eventually put on display as a "living exhibit." He was the last speaker of his own language, and "Ishi" means Man in it. He could not share his name, as he had no one left to introduce him in his native customs.

A pretty tragic story, with many more details left unsaid here. It's one that deserves telling for all the knowledge he shared, keeping the coals of flintknapping alive to be fanned into a fire. And, it's one that deserves deep reflection to understand the terrible forces that created that situation in the first place, and how the threads of those ideas still need to be cut from the fabric of our western society. Reflection especially for me and other descendants of European settlers who wish to learn these things; the technique should not be taken without knowing the darkness of its origins.

[weirdponytail]

Rough attempt at a hand axe using various tools including copper and iron boppers, and hard hammerstone. Not after any particular style, mostly because I’m terrified of taking off more in case it all shatters to bits.