Flint knapping : a guide to making your own Stone Age toolkit / Robert Turner.
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Turner, Robert (författare)
- ISBN 9780752488745
- Publicerad: Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2013
- Engelska 163 sidor
- Relaterad länk:
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http://www.thehistor...
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Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Understanding which rocks to use -- The conchoidal fracture or how knapping works -- How to get started and the tools you will need -- Making a hand axe -- Making a blade core -- The history of knapping -- Metal and modern tools -- Pressure flaking -- Another viewpoint on starting to flint knap -- A further look at how you hit rocks: The Levallois Reduction -- A core tool and a blade tool -- Let's make a thin biface -- Let's make an arrowhead -- An introduction to American knapping -- American time periods and types of points -- Is there a connection between European and American knapping? -- UK flint mines and USA flint mines -- Let's make an American point -- Further knapping techniques (heat-treating) -- Summing it all up -- Illustrating your flints.
- Flint knapping was one of the primary skills for survival for our prehistoric ancestors. This highly original guide will enable the reader, with practice, to manufacture their own Stone Age tool kit. The expert author guides the reader on a journey of discovery, passing on ancient knowledge of how flint tools from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze age were made and used.
Ämnesord
- Flintteknik (sao)
- Stenåldern (sao)
- Flintknapping. (LCSH)
- Stone implements. (LCSH)
- Flintknapping (LCSH)
- Stone age (LCSH)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- J.03 Arkeologi: verktyg, redskap, vapen
Klassifikation
- TT293 (LCC)
- 623.4/41 (DDC)
- CRA000000 (bisacsh)
- J.03 (kssb/8)
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