Obsidian biface

Flintknapping

Revival of the art of making stone tools


Last modified on: Jan 30, 2000.

Gallery


Pictures of knapped blades and points.

How to do it



Links


News and Information


An online interview of Tim Rast, creator of Knappers Anonymous Home Page (discription and link below), and me published in Wired Magazine Online.

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The biggest, most comprehensive flintknapping website.
Picture gallery of knapped blades and points.
History.
How to do flintknapping.
Swap and For Sale areas.
Links to other knapping related sites.
Bibleography.
Lots more.

Northern European flintknapping. Points, blades, axes, celts, daggers, scrapers, borers -- you name it, its here. English and Norwegan language versions available.

Don Crabtree flintknapping films have been transferred to VHS format tape. These historic films, featuring one of the pioneers of the modern flintknapping revival, are available from the Idaho State University museum publications department.

Examples of Don Crabtree's outstanding pressure-flaking skills may be viewed at this website maintained by the Herrett Museum and Center for Arts and Science located on the College of Southern Idaho campus.
Note also: The Don E. Crabtree Lithic Collection, his personal library, extensive correspondence, and personal writings are preserved in the "Crabtree Room" in the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Idaho, at Moscow, Idaho. His personal collection is made up of thousands of points and is well worth the visit to view and study them.

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Flintknapping, hide tanning, lots more.

Atlatl technology and use, flintknapping, links to other atlatl related sites, more.

Sterling Smith's collection of stone tools he found and some he made. Very good photography.

Pictures of knapped points.

A posting page for unidentified lithics. Can you identify any of these?

Oregon State University's Center for the Study of the First Americans. News on what's happening in archaeology that relates to the original peopling of the Americas in The Manmoth Trumpet, a quarterly news letter. Subscribe or look at the archive. Also, annual scientific publication, Current Research in the Pleistocene..

Vendors


Books, videotapes, posters and tools related to flintknapping.
Subscriptions to Chips, The flintknapper's publication. Four issues per year.
Schedule of knap-ins and other events. Look at the link for Knap-in Organizers.

Catalog request for publications, knives, and other knapped objects. Also, knapping tools.

Order Bob's book: Old Tools, New Eyes.

Order a year 2000 calendar featuring the work of twelve outstanding knappers. Top quality points, photography, layout, and printing. Includes a page about the knappers..

Mark Condron:s fine art custom knives, flintknapping, primitive archery, fossils, lapidary, kilns for knappers, First Floridians Living History Program, classes, links to related sites.

Stone, tools, other flintknapping supplies.

Pictures of points with prices, more. The photography is outstanding.