How To Make Antler Hammers for Flintknapping

Flintknapping is a craft that requires only basic tools and equipment. Good hammerstones only require a beach or river bank with quartzite pebbles, but what about antler soft hammers for thinning and refinement? How did people break up deer antlers in prehistory to make hammers? Experimental archaeologist Dr. James Dilley talks through some of the processes used, and demonstrates how simple stone tools with some heat from a fire could be used to break antler. There is still a significant time investment to create an antler hammer, but was it worth it? Very few exist in the archaeological record, but many fine stone tools exist, so where are they??
Filmed & Edited by Emma Jones of ELWJ Media - www.elwjmedia.co.uk
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