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	Flintknapper
		A flintknapper is an individual who manufactures chipped-stone[?] tools through the process of lithic reduction.
		This is done by using a fabricator, such as a hammerstone, to remove lithic flakes from a nucleus or core of tool stone.
		In prehistoric cultures flintknappers were common, but the art has all but died out in modern times.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fl/Flintknapper.html (109 words)

	Guadalupe River Gravels
		That was once an artifact that subsequently became part of the gravel load of the river.
		One likely explanation for the occurrence of this piece is that it represents a discarded failed tool, a "thick biface," that some prehistoric flintknapper discarded while sitting on a gravel bar upstream trying to make stone tools.
		Speculative, of course, but reworked stone tools can be found in the gravel bars of most of the rivers in the region, if you know what you what to look for.
	www.texasbeyondhistory.net /st-plains/nature/images/Guadalupe-GTG.html (113 words)

	Flintknapper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A flintknapper is an individual who shapes flint or other stone through the process of knapping or lithic reduction, to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls.
		In cultures that have not adopted metalworking technologies, the production of stone tools by flintknappers is common, but in modern cultures the making of such tools is the domain of experimental archaeologists and hobbyists.
		Early flintknappers and hobbyists replicating their methods often use cobbles of very hard stone, such as quartzite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flintknapper (774 words)

	Stone tool - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Chipped stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert, radiolarite, chalcedony or obsidian via a process known as lithic reduction.
		If the goal of the reduction strategy is to produce flakes, the remnant lithic core may be discarded once it has become too small to use.
		In some strategies, however, a flintknapper reduces the core to a rough unifacial or bifacial preform, which is further reduced using soft hammer flaking techniques or by pressure flaking the edges.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Stone_tools (673 words)

	Flintknapping Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fledgling flintknappers watched a video describing the general principles of how to get a piece of stone to break in a pre-determined and predictable manner.
		For the next five hours the neophyte flintknappers made items ranging from a pile of small pieces of rock to a very good replica of a Clovis spear point.
		Eleven year old Dominic, the youngest flintknapper, made an outstanding bird point that was essentially identical to one of the bird points in the display case belonging to Luther.
	home.comcast.net /~friendsofcsm/flintknapping.htm (199 words)

	Flintknapping - www.findon.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many flintknappers were highly skilled craftsmen and were equivalent to the metal-working flsmiths of the later Iron Age.
		Flintknappers generated vast amounts of waste material, as they worked producing tools including: scrapers, axes, knives and arrowheads.
		Flintknapper John Lord demonstrated how to split a large flint producing a suitable blank using a rock hammer.
	www.findon.info /cissbury/flintknapping/flintknapping.htm (452 words)

	PHOENIX OBSIDIAN DESIGNS - Pressure Flintknapping Supplies
		Meanwhile, the antler bits are perfect for the flintknapper trying to more accurately replicate more traditional techniques.
		This tungsten tipped glass inscriber should be in every flintknapper's kit in order to sign their work when finished by mechanical etching.
		There is a plastic container to hold your flakes, multiple zippered pockets for your arrowheads and first aid supplies, and sleeves for your pressure flakers.
	www.obsidiandesigns.com /pressure.html (621 words)

	Basic Techniques
		The principal disadvantage is that the flintknapper does not have a great deal of control over the flake removal process.
		Technically, the hammerstone must be made of a material that is harder that the core material so that it does not shatter in the flintknapper's hands.
		By using hard hammer percussion, the experienced flintknapper has very good control over where the flake will be detached and the size of the flake.
	www.anth.ucsb.edu /faculty/stsmith/classes/anth3/courseware/LithicTech/5_Basic_Techniques.html (612 words)

	Items for Sale
		Flintknapper Bob Estep writes: “No one else out there has anything that compares to it, instructional or otherwise.” “Your DVD is first class.
		Very informative, not only on the topic of Danish daggers, and their history, but to flintknapping and recreating the way in which they were made in Neolithic times, i.e.
		Flintknapper Bill Nagy writes: “I recently received your DVD "Replicating the Type 1C Dagger" and just wanted to let you know how truly happy I am with the purchase.
	www.gregnunnflintworks.com /html/DVDTestimonials.html (560 words)

	Obsidian Knives, flint knives and other material knives - Carlo Gori, The Flintknapper - Milano Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I am one of the very few “FLINTKNAPPERS” in Italy, I build knives, arrowheads and other tools knapping the flint d other stuff in the same way like our prehistoric ancestors.
		This job has several steps: the research of workable stones, the skill to knapp, and the knowledge of Prehistory.
		In a technological Era like the one in which we are living, someone will be surprised to find a person knapping flints and obsidians, but all is in our genetic background even if it may be hid in a remote area of our brain.
	www.obsidianknives.it /index_eng.php (110 words)

	Sibley Nature Center, Midland, Texas: Habitats - Sanddunes - Photoessay: Scenes, Oddities, and Artifacts
		Despite appearing to be harsh country, Indian artifacts are often found in the dunes.
		The delicate work of the Indian flintknapper is impressive.
		Arrowheads are art - the flintknapper of this arrowhead selected a beautiful rock to work on.
	www.sibleynaturecenter.org /habitats/sanddunes/scenes/index.html (299 words)

	Caught knapping
		Gaasland-Tatro is a flintknapper, someone who practices the prehistoric craft of making tools from glass-in her case, either plate glass or glassy stones like obsidian.
		By breaking chunks off of a larger piece and then shaping those chunks with a copper-tipped hand tool, she creates arrowheads and other miniature glass pieces that can be either decorative or functional.
		The copper tool grips the surface of the glass, allowing the flintknapper to flake pieces off with pressure rather than by chipping.
	web.grinnell.edu /sandb/archives/volume_118/number_19/features/2laura.html (270 words)

	megalithics home 2
		Found these 200 yellows, under one tree, on the 23rd!!
		If it's flintnapper, flintknappers, flint napper, or flint knapper, this site's for you!
		Knap-in info with the dates for Devil's Hole '07 and a list of nearby motels.
	www.flintknapper.com (117 words)

	Lithic Technology
		Striking platforms will have different characteristics depending on the technique that was used to remove the flake.
		For example, on this flake and core, the striking platform has only one surface, and is quite wide, indicating that the flintknapper wanted to detach a large, thick flake.
		The platform will often have half of a ring fracture right at the exact point where the detaching blow was struck.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/archy/lithictech/lithictech2.html (1197 words)

	Links
		Please note that the following links are in no particular order and that we can not guarantee that all the links are current and take no responsibility for down links or those that direct to offensive material.
		Horseshoe Bend Knappers - Located on the Horseshoe Bend of the Brazos River south of Weatherford, Texas, the Horseshoe Bend Knappers is an informal club comprised primarily of knapping hobbyists.
		One thing is true for all who attend and that is a shared love for fun that can be had by “breaking rock”.
	www.flintknapping.com /Links.htm (2158 words)

	The Flintknapper
		He never questioned how arrowheads were made until he saw a skilled flintknapper transform a shapeless hunk of flint into a beautiful flint-point by using primitive tools.
		He also attended many flintknapper rendezvous' exchanging tools, knowledge, and materials with others.
		He compares flint knapping to chess, you have to continuously think several steps ahead to what your next move will be.
	www.angelfire.com /oh4/theflintknapper/index.html (538 words)

	Ask Mikey about Geology, Rock Types & Miscellaneous, Rockhounding Arkansas
		If you are not from Arkansas, check with your state geological survey to find out if there are any potential geode-collecting sites where you live.
		Mikey, I am a flintknapper and have purchased some noviculite (mispelled) from a store in Mo. I have family in Rogers, Ark., that I visit often.
		You might ask if they have a reject pile of stone you may pick through or if they will provide you with some different types of novaculite so that you can learn what may work best for your purposes.
	www.rockhoundingar.com /askmikey/askMgeology.html (3733 words)

	Indian Club
		All students are welcome to attend and participate in club activities.
		Flintknapper, James (Jim) Bowden, fascinated audience members with his unique collection of bows and arrows on November 18 at the Student Activities Center.
		The presentation was sponsored by the Native American Club and was open to all.
	www.drlamay.com /backup/indian_club.htm (726 words)

	Opal Jewelry On "Art of Ishi by Mike Cook"
		Opal is often opaque but is sometimes beautifully translucent, fire flashing from within.
		But the most unique characteristic about opal to a flintknapper is the marvelous fact that it possesses a property called conchoidal fracture.
		This simply means that it can be flaked or knapped the same as flint or obsidian, thus opal arrowheads!
	artofishi.hypermart.net /Opal_Jewelry.html (598 words)

	Recommendations
		There are plenty of sources of information that a beginning flintknapper can acquire through books, videos, University Archaeology Departments, Internet homepages and flintknapping forums, like the Tarp.
		Therefore, it is not my intention to go into depth here of what exactly a newbie should do to make that perfect point.
		After all "repetition is the mother of skill" and before long, you will be showing off dozens of successful points.
	www.sparrowcreek.com /Recommendations.htm (835 words)

	Streletskayan Points (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This amazed me because they looked like they were made with highly controlled percussion thinning and possibly even pressure finished.
		At the time I only had a limited chance to see the artifacts but as a flintknapper and student of Western European Paleolithic, I wanted to see more.
		While I was in Russia I met a fellow flintknapper, Yevgenij Giria (Zhenya).
	www.primtech.net /info/strelets.html (868 words)

	ABQjournal: This Weekend
		The Sandia Ranger District will host a flintknapping workshop for adults on Saturday.
		Presented by master flintknapper Luther Rivera, the workshop will run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
		The fee for the workshop, use of a tool kit and all materials is $30.
	www.mvtelegraph.com /mountain/492771mtnview09-14-06.htm (554 words)

	WE MOVE Discussion Forum: Profile for Flintknapper
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	www.wemove.org /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/profile/20105.html (196 words)

	Facts about flintknapper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, there are some hobbyists and archeologists who teach themselves flintknapping even today.
		Flintknapping - Learn to Make Stone Tools with D.C. Waldorf, Master Flintknapper
		Internet Infidels Discussion Forums - View Profile: flintknapper
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/flintknapper.html (163 words)

	Creekside Artifacts: Jim Fisher's Artifact Collecting and Flintknapping Web Site
		The flintknapping information at this site is made available by D.C. and Val Waldorf of Mound Builder Books, and Dane and Mary Martin of The Flintknapper's Corner.
		Mound Builder Books and the Flintknapper's Corner are dedicated to the advancement of flint knapping.
		A SIMPLE GUIDE FOR THE AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST AND HOBBYIST
	www.creeksideartifacts.com /page21.html (61 words)

	FLINTKNAPPER Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database
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	Log by flintknapper for Pony Express (Virtual Cache)
		Log by flintknapper for Pony Express (Virtual Cache)
		This was stop #2 of 8 today so we didnt spend much time.
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	www.geocaching.com /seek/log.aspx?LUID=f12b9cde-41b2-4718-8885-a7161173bc67 (61 words)

	EARLY SETTLERS AMERICA
		A picture story includes examples of painted images left on cave walls and the origin stories of the Native American peoples who still tell them - and that answer questions about where people came from and how they got here - are featured in detail.
		Meet a modern-day "flintknapper" and create a clay whistle.
		Faces visits this continent's early dwellers, who most likely arrived in North America via the Berin…
	www.cobblestonepub.com /Issue/FAC9611.html?z=7.1582650184631 (184 words)

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