How to: Make Stone Tools: Pressure-Flaking a Stone Point

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Posted: 2018-08-19 11:21:11
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In this video I will focus on pressure-flaking a stone point that is ready to be hafted onto a handle.

Here is my video on making a preform bi-face using percussion flaking - in depth Making Stone Tools: Knapping a Preform Bi-Face

[ARTICLE] Stone Tool Basics: http://www.theurbanabo.com/articles.php?aid=11

Be sure to heck out Practical Primitive and Paleo-Man Jim

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Vocabulary:
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Hertzien cone - the force from a strike that moves out from the point of impact in a cone hsape that is roughly 100 degrees wide

Blade-Core - parent material that is used to create flake blades

Cobble - parent material or a lump of stone

Flint Knapping - working stone to a desired shape through percussion or pressure flaking

Platform - edges or a surface that is less than 90=degrees used to break of flakes from a core

Spall - a flake from parent material, core, or cobble

Percussion flaking - using a hard object to strike softer material to create flakes or shape a spall

Hammerstone - dense rock or stone used to strike softer material to create flakes or shape a spall

Billet - a hammer or mallet shaped tool used to strike softer stone material to create flakes or shape a spall

Haft - to tie or fit onto a handle usually made of wood

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