A little something about Pakistani-French excavations of
#Chanhudaro.
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#MAFBI Mission Archéologique Française du Bassin de l'Indus
#beads #cornaline #carnelian #cornalina #IndusValley #knapping
This article comes from a talk given at #12ICAANE back in 2021.
This is absolutely beautiful.
This is how our ancestors made knives, spears, arrows, scrapers, cutters, sickles and more.
He starts off with a massive, ungainly hunk, then slowly shapes it into a precious blade core.
#neolithic #knapping #flint #schist #jadeite #diorite #core #clovis
Three green christmas trees shaped from knapped flint arrowhead drawings with colourful dots of christmas lights
Ringing in some final Christmas cheer with these archaeological arrowhead festive “trees” 🎄
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🏺 #archaeology #arrowheads #flint #knapping #archeology #anthropology #prehistoric
From Alison Fisk: The photo shows an Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to retain the shell in a central position. Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm Weight 0.375kg. Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Wow! Alison Fisk on Bluesky today showing "An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!"
That's some serious dedication to the art of the craft. They wanted that shell to be in the hand axe. Of that I have no […]
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#Knapping
#Lithics #Refitting #Knapping
Excited to present my initial PhD results from Mozambique at SAFA 2025! If you're around, join us this week in Faro, Portugal @icarehb.bsky.social
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Experimental archaeologists: standardizing blanks makes results clean but is tricky. @sahelanthrope.bsky.social et al. tested various materials and shapes. Each has pros and cons... This OPEN ACCESS paper compiles protocols & tips into one handy guide. #knapping #archaeology
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The #HindsgavlDagger from #Denmark, 1900-1700 BC. This #Neolithic #Flint #Dagger is considered among the most beautiful examples of flint #knapping. Unknown Photographer
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#History
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Daily dose of rocks day 9
#agate #rawagate #chalcedony #bayoffundy #bayoffundyrocks #novascotiaagate #rockhound #rockhounding #rockcollecting #mineralcollector #minerallove #rocksandminerals #knapping #projectilepoint #novascotiarockhounding
I was walking along the creek today and found another rawhide scraper 😁.
But this one's in wayyyy better condition than the last two.
This makes me want to get my knapping tools out again 😃.
#knapping #flintknapping #artifacts #primitivetechnology #outdoorsman #bushcraft #natureboy #lgbtq
Delighted to have our paper on #knapping published here. Read more on Flakes and feelings...
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So, apparently it is possible to make effective shuriken out of obsidian. Apparently Dark Sun was right when it included chatkcha as a thri-kreen cultural weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eQaBNEIE2Bw
#Shuriken #DarkSun #ThriKreen #Chatkcha #Knapping
Finally getting some progress on the paleolithic game, and still harming my own eyes with the assets I made and/or stole from Role of Hex.
#indiedev #indie #prehistoric #historic #paleolithic #knapping #basic #stone #anvil
Bifacial point
#Knapping #Lithic #Biface
Kicking off my first post on Bluesky with a bifacial flake point made from local Lisbona material.
Definitely worth watching and indeed, doing a course with, Mr Will Lord. Everything from #knapping to #bronzecasting #bowmaking to #ancientcrafts can be covered. Based in #suffolk
I believe it was knapped in the Mesolithic period, but is it a blade or merely a flake? I get a buzz when I pick these flints up and think of the last time they were handled #mesolithic #flint #knapping #Cornwall #Kernow
Huge congratulations to Dr Vickie Anh-Vy Pham who graduated this weekend with her PhD on #chimpanzee buttress drumming and rhythm in flint #knapping. 🙉🔨🎶
"DRUMMING TREES AND STONE PERCUSSION: An Evolution of Rhythm"
📢Data from #Chahudaro by #MAFBI contributes to this amazing presentation coming up tomorrow at @icaane13. Thanks to @mosdann and @FlorineMarchan4 for #knapping the way from #Levant to the #Indus
Once Neolithic archaeologist, always Neolithic archaeologist. 🤷🏻♂️
How do you call a huge collection of #flint nodules? - Right, a #knapping challenge.
(Watch your fingers, though. 😬😉)
8/ in the 1870s Jack made an living selling ‘dooplicates’ and demonstrating #knapping, but was arrested in Malton as ‘rogue and vagabond’. Alfred C. Elliott took a ferrotype in Jun 1872 at Stamford, which he sold for a shilling a piece (possibly this image?). 📸 @yorkmuseumtrust
3/ Flint Jack sold his forgeries across the country but was exposed in 1859. His notoriety was guaranteed following a #knapping demonstration to @geolsoc in London on 7th January 1862. This undated image he shows Jack holding a hammer and a battle axe. 📸 MAA @CamUnivMuseums
Robert John 'Black Jack' Snare 1835-1898, #knapping flints in #Brandon, c.1887. The man standing is the folklorist and tinder box maker, Edward Lovett. #flintfriday #Folklore. Image colourised by @colourisesg
