Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools

Whittaker, John C.

ISBN 10: 029279083X / ISBN 13: 9780292790834

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1994

Beschreibung

NOT an ex library book. 341 pages including the index. Trade paperback book cover is orange and black and is different than the stock image.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 352415

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 029279083X
• ISBN-13: 9780292790834
• Einband: trade paperback
• Auflage: 3rd print.
• Zustand: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. John C. Whitaker's bestselling guide is a detailed handbook on flintknapping, written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them.

Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker starts at the beginner level and progresses to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-by-step instructions for making several basic stone tool types. Numerous diagrams allow the reader to visualize the flintknapping process, and drawings of many stone tools illustrate the discussions and serve as models for beginning knappers.

Written for a wide amateur and professional audience, Flintknapping will be essential for practicing knappers as well as for teachers of the history of technology, experimental archaeology, and stone tool analysis.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John C. Whittaker is a professor of anthropology at Grinnell College and the author of American Flintknappers: Stone Age Art in the Age of Computers.