flint-knapping
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Knapping — A knapper is a person who shapes flint, chert, obsidian 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,… … Wikipedia
Flint tool — Chipped stone tools were made by stone age peoples worldwide. Paleolithic tools were relatively simple, repeated small flakes being struck or pressed from a cobble or nucleus until the required shape was achieved. This is called knapping. Freshly … Wikipedia
Flint — (or flintstone) is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [ [http://webmineral.com/data/Quartz.shtml General Quartz Information] Webmineral.com (page contains java applets depicting 3d molecular structure)] [… … Wikipedia
Errett Callahan — (born December 17, 1937) is an American archaeologist, flintknapper, and pioneer in the fields of experimental archaeology and lithic replication studies.Early life Errett Callahan was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on December 17, 1937. Callahan’s… … Wikipedia
Veldwezelt-Hezerwater — is a Palaeolithic archaeological site in Belgium. ContextThe successive archaeological excavation campaigns at Veldwezelt Hezerwater, Belgium provide important remains of at least five separate Middle Palaeolithic valley settlements. It is… … Wikipedia
Ancient history of Mellor — The ancient history of the village of Mellor and surrounding hamlets in Greater Manchester, England is still shrouded in considerable mystery and the excavations have so far done more to add to the puzzlement than dispel it.BackgroundPreviously… … Wikipedia
Ohalo — is the common designation for the archaeological site Ohalo II, which is located near the Sea of Galilee in modern day Israel, and one of the best preserved hunter gatherer archaeological sites of the Last Glacial Maximum, having been radiocarbon … Wikipedia
Lithic reduction — The Levallois technique of flint knapping Lithic reduction involves the use of a hard hammer precursor, such as a hammerstone, a soft hammer fabricator (made of wood, bone or antler), or a wood or antler punch to detach lithic flakes from a lump… … Wikipedia
Grimes Graves — Geobox|Mine name = Grimes Graves category = Neolithic flint Mine image caption =View of the floorstone visible in the public pit at Grime s Graves symbol = Standard of the English Heritage.svg country = England county = Norfolk region = East of… … Wikipedia
Beaker culture — The Bell Beaker culture (sometimes shortened to Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk; de. Glockenbecherkultur), ca. 2800 ndash; 1900 BC, is the term for a widely scattered cultural phenomenon of prehistoric western Europe starting in the … Wikipedia
