Blade Core techniques. Flintknapping part of the Clovis Assemblage

In this episode of FlintKnapping Friday we work through Blade coring and problem solving to create long blades used for animal butchery and wood working. This toolage is very important in the Clovis complex.

[@lobopropredatorcontrol]

Love how you work through and show the mistakes, thanks a bunch

[@stringbean585]

Very useful video. It was nice kind of learning along with you, and seeing you address the problems and overcoming them. Thank you for what you do for us!

[@uglyfrog7263]

This is a fun and informative video, really enjoyed it!

[@calvinaffinito8761]

Thank you for making this video people in the community don't give the respect that blade core technology it deserves it played a major part in Europeian/North and South American stone age technology

[@paddelin42]

Also flints for flintlock

[@monkeykong6230]

Could you just do a livestream of this? It’s so much fun to listen to and watch!!

[@piggyslayer1999]

So cool to see conical cores made, i have a couple clovis cores like that around 7 inches and i always wondered how that got such long blades

[@peterwiking7899]

Nice work Ryan, you getting into it, try to prepare the the steps and overhenge from bottom or at the ridges, with indirect the angle does not need to be 90degress or sharper..

[@neanderthalnonsense]

Love this technology. I have seen tons of blades made. Buttt I haven't seen anyone make a point from one of these blades or even hafted one. To me this would be a great way to make 3/4 and 1" wide arrow points.

[@jeffhall8692]

Hi MS, this is Mater. I got an obsidian rock at Flint Ridge that I want to turn into a blade core this year, It is pretty blocky so I'll probably ruin it but still want to try.

[@neanderthalnonsense]

@Jeff Hall heck yeah. Best of luckto ya.

[@paddelin42]

Look at Scandinavian transverse points

[@paddelin42]

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[@rockhunter6260]

Looks like you’re on the cutting edge👍🏻

[@justsomeguywithaboomerang1891]

Lol

[@Joshik-lv2le]

I always love the things you do Can you please do a video on how to store our hide

[@rogerhostetler1359]

Good one Ryan. Georgetown is great material for running blades

[@genegorringe7395]

Very good I really enjoyed the video thank you for your time be safe watch your six Gene Gorringe Mi ✌️ 🇺🇲 🇬🇧

[@lelandshanks3590]

Very informative, gives me alot of future ideas.

[@limoucheu8522]

Really interesting, but as a European archaeologist, your method is what we call opportunistic. If you want to be more efficient, you need to make a crest. When you do your first flake, it is to have your large platform, but if you want to be immediately able to remove blades, you need to do a crest. The best method to do that is the zigzaging method. Then isolate your impact point and use direct or indirect percussion as you want. The position of your nucleus is also strange. We, the Europeans consider putting the nucleus between the two legs and putting the punch on it. With your position, you are not able to see where you put the tip of your punch, and in this technique, accuracy is essential. The crest allows your shock wave to travel from the tip of the platform to the distal part of the nucleus. When the crest has been removed, it leaves two almost perfect ridges that allow you to begin the debitage. In reality, most of the pieces are for pre determination and sometimes they are simply left. These blades allow you to have the product you want (sometimes a lenght, sometime straight, sometimes one or two ridges). You probably need more mass to properly remove your blades. We use moose antlers or, more frequently, buxus pieces of wood. Blades are extremely important for us because, as I know you are an expert in hunting, in Europe most of the projectile points of upper palaeolithic, have been done on these pieces. Gravettians do some straight blades with backs (I did some experiments and produced more than 120 of them), and solutreans, (contrary to what people think about laurel leaf what are knife blades), use blades to make shoulder points with pressure flakers. Magdalenians use bladelets to put on bone points, glued with resin, increasing the cutting efficiency of the single bone. Here is a video of a dr. in archaeology who is one of the best flintknappers (and one of the first to do experimentation. dr. Crabtree is in the same generation ), dr Pelegrin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZPMgpJqgpuKpsU All the best.

[@beaverwrassler5773]

Have you ever seen paleomanjim's videos on blade cores? A lot of good information for anyone looking to make good blades.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

Looking at this I am 100% certain I have found a quarry nearby my house. Full of these blade cores, preforms, blanks all sorts of stuff. No points though that I have found yet.

[@Extort713]

I would def have to wear safety glasses attempting this

[@lesthompson5907]

most of them blade will make good muzzle lock flint's . once squared up. very interesting production method. needs an anvil to Make gun flints out of them. well don Les England.

[@evanfmc]

i would definitely be interested in purchasing whole nodules of stone, atleast medium sized pieces!

[@johnknappingthings271]

That was cool can u do the same thing but with different materials like maybe obsidian.

[@linklesstennessee2078]

Nice blades

[@frankbyrd6726]

Thanks This is good stuff

[@James-xl7sv]

What would be in your opinion the ultimate or best napping tool kit...

[@ndoghouse6853]

at 28.0 min you can punch from the top of that step off to the side then go into that bulb towards the mass below the step and blow off that entire mass. Essentially what you are doing is stitching like on Danish dagger handle. then you can take blades across the leftover stitches and completely remove the stitches. Now your clean again. Edit!... Not sure you will be able to do that with an antler punch. Im using copper and a percussion bulb is no problem. Sorry had to add that?

[@jillatherton4660]

😄👍 TY Ryan.

[@sodalines]

do you sell the blades your chipping off. you should. i would like to make a video shaving with one.

[@atprep6686]

Need some better angles on the view. But some explanation on the angles you are using. Thanks

[@lifesahobby]

Thanks

[@LeMayJoseph]

Maybe try like a GoPro on a head strap?

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Hammering razor-edge knife blades directly towards your groin seems... illogical. 😮

[@Aethelvlad]

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