Flintknapping

Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Using This Book -- Learning to Knap -- 2. Flintknapping: Basic Principles -- Flintknapping -- Conchoidal Fracture -- Properties of Material -- Flakes and Cores -- 3. A Brief History Of Flintknapping -- Prehistory of Stone Tools -- Recent "Stone-Age" People -- Modern Knapping -- Further Readings -- Other Resources: Finding Other Knappers -- 4. Raw Materials -- Stone Quality -- Stone Materials -- Heat-Treating -- Collecting Material: Ethical and Practical Considerations -- 5. Safety -- Proper Technique -- Eyes -- Hands -- Other Body Parts -- Lungs -- Waste Disposal -- Benefits -- 6. Hard-Hammer Percussion -- Material and Equipment -- Percussion-Flaking Principles: An Experiment -- Percussion Flaking -- Platforms -- The Face of the Core -- Terminations -- Curvature -- Starting a Core -- Summary: Nine Essentials -- Examples -- 7. Pressure Flaking -- Tools -- Raw Material -- First Principles -- Working Position -- Beginning -- Platform Preparation -- Thinning -- Notching -- Other Pressure-Flaking Techniques -- Summary: Six Essentials -- Application: Small Triangular Points from the Southwest -- Pressure-Flaking Problems -- Patterned Pressure Flaking -- 8. Soft-Hammer Percussion And Bifaces -- Definitions -- Tools -- Beginning -- Soft-Hammer Principles and Results -- Biface Thinning Flakes -- Fracture Theories -- The Blow Platforms -- Biface Stages -- Knapping Strategy and Other Considerations -- Example: A Basic Biface -- Biface Problems: Prehistoric Mistakes -- Summary -- 9. Blades And Fluting -- Blades -- Platforms -- Holding -- Punches -- The Blow -- Fluting -- Example: Fluted Point -- 10. Using Stone Tools -- Stone vs. Steel -- Edges and Cutting -- Making a Projectile Foreshaft -- Going On -- 11. Archaeological Analysis Of Stone Tools -- Typology -- Stone Tool Types and Change through Time -- What People Did with Stones -- Sources of Variation: Why Stone Tools Are Not All Alike -- Analyzing Stone Tool Materials -- Technology and What It Tells Us -- Figuring Out Function -- Questions of Style -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Resources For Knappers -- References -- Index.