Blade Core Assemblages: Taking A Look At Prehistoric Tools

[@NORTH02]

These videos are so good, great camera work!

[@tobiascockburn]

Fantastic Film. Thank you!

[@steveprowse649]

Thanks. I really enjoyed that & learnt a lot.

[@Freeman-Dl70]

Your technique is impressive,as is your understanding of flint knapping !

[@PulitzerOpal]

Excellent video! Quality blades produced from quality cores. I assume (by their appearance, together with your accent!) that this is UK flint .. like Brandon flint. Thanks for sharing this!

[@AntonChigurification]

Can't overstate how useful and informative all your videos are. Hope to seem more lithic content!

[@qwertz70329]

You should show how sharp this blades really are most people underestimate how sharp they are compared to metal..

[@the_rover1]

last weekend I was trying to flint knap the very first time for a course on experimental archaeology I was attending at university. after roughly an hour, I already had three plasters applied...

[@qwertz70329]

@@the_rover1 😂😂😂

[@bodyno3158]

@@the_rover1 The good thing is they are so sharp that the wound would heal very quickly and nicely.

[@jimv.661]

Thank you. Another great dissertation.

[@frankparrish5657]

"cutting edge per kilo", once the core is made, but not before. Nice Video.

[@swetarajpurohit4889]

Really well explained..👍

[@uglyfrog7263]

I truly enjoy your work Dr. Dilley.

[@月詠乃命]

I can't speak english I'm watching while translating your video. Great, indescribable.　good and cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@postictal7846]

Interesting to hear and see the manufacturing process. Makes me curious if this was a job someone performed or a basic skill everyone would have.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Mastering flint knapping is not easy, so not everybody would be doing it.

[@tucotuco2222]

I think it would be more of a gradient. Like basically everyone could knock out a knife or serviceable spearpoint, but finer more reliable work would be on a skilled individual. Like someone knowing how to sharpen their knife today vs making a knife.

[@flugschulerfluglehrer]

I was thinking about this too. Specialization is generally attributed to the neolithic.

[@jf4313]

The chisel tipped arrows were for water foul. If you send a pointed arrowhead through a giant flock of water foul it will glance between the birds. A chisel tipped arrowhead randomly launched into a flock of birds would harvest way more game than a pointed arrow. Notice the chisel tipped arrows are only found near large bodies of water with flocking foul.

[@ancientcraftUK]

Unfortunately there isn’t the faunal evidence to show people were hunting water foul. They’re also not always found near bodies of water (current or ancient). The key thing to remember is that different arrowhead types don’t occur at the same time in Neolithic Britain other than brief transitions.

[@ChrisPBacon-jl7oc]

Is there any book u could reccomend for people interested in the (pre) historic side of flintknapping?

[@HighWealder]

The blade cores look similar to the obsidian cores developed by the Maya and Aztecs, from common technological ancestry.

[@captainbeeflaps5612]

Did stone age people in the uk heat treat the flint ? English flint is as tough as iron !

[@ancientcraftUK]

They appear to have, though evidence is limited and it’s likely to have been very infrequent. We’re just a tough, hardy lot! 😉

[@captainbeeflaps5612]

@@ancientcraftUK interesting ! I am about to order some flint from needham and curious about heat treating temps , my wrists need a rest, us scots are stuck knapping glass from discarded buckfast bottles so raw flint is a shocker

[@ancientcraftUK]

Flakes need to cook for a couple of hours at 350-400°C. That Needham chalks flint is tough I agree. I’ll hopefully be coming up to Scotland in May to do knapping workshops

[@captainbeeflaps5612]

@@ancientcraftUK thanks thats great info on the temps, i would really like to come to that demo and get some tips from you , i am in the Dumbarton area but can travel to the event wherever it is covid permitting Keep us all posted !

[@ancientcraftUK]

Set to be near Glasgow (Seven Lochs) in May, fingers crossed!

[@larryparis925]

What time in Pacific Standard Time?

[@ancientcraftUK]

11:00am

[@larryparis925]

@@ancientcraftUK Thank you! Much appreciated.

[@robertmeadows7508]

A Burin !

[@angelafay2329]

scrapers

[@blackhandbill]

I thought the Palaeolithic period started 2.9 million years ago who was making blades 3.3 million years ago?

[@gmol2812]

We learned 3.3 mio. Years to be the start of the paläolithic.

[@maartenperdeck798]

Great!!! For old blades google perdeckcollection

[@ThomasSmith-os4zc]

I love lithics but I study lithics from Georgia USA.

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