Even though flint knapping was a neccesity in early Native American lives, I believe that they considered it an art form and took great pride in their work. I too have approached it as an art form. For this reason, every blade is painstakingly matched to the appropriate antler. I am a...
Frame taken from the video “Flakes and Spalls-Basic Flint Knapping”, freely available athttps://rootsvt.com/videos-1/(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1b_6bGPkvo). The combination of these four elements allows the production of a Hertzian cone, a cone of force that propagates throug...