@@Chazie_ a fresh flake with a non-serrated edge probably could do that well. i’m imagining if you wanted that in a knife you could make a uni-facial square-ish blade and take off a tranchet flake, which basically means instead of pressure flaking you take off a flake from the entire edge all at once
Beautiful work my friend. Many people imagine humans were less intelligent in stone age times, but the quality and craftsmanship demonstrated in modern and ancient flintknapping is a delight to behold, and clearly shows their intelligence and skills were at least as high as ours. Some would say higher! 😀
It depends on era of the stoneage an who made the tools. Australopithecines were the first to make stone tools but they they weren't refined and have any design in ingenuity. Than with Homo. erectus seem to be more thought put into the tools and were biface shape (leaf/spear shaped). Then Homo. sapiens completely blew their predecessors out of the water with the tools they made so much more refined with increased ingenuity. Wish I could attache pictures for each.
@@spwan10 Dead right buddy! Even pre tech we were a clever beastie! In fact, back then if we had been techy enough to invent something as long lasting as plastic, we were way to smart to use it once and then throw it in the ocean like we do today!
@@spwan10 very true, I was referring to Homo Sapiens Sapiens, modern man. Definitely a development trail. its just that a lot of people make the automatic assumption about the 'stone age', that they were all dumb grunts, whereas the craftsmanship demonstrated in a lot of the flint and other stone tools shows a high degree of sophistication.
Do remember we are still stone age cavemen in psyche, as intelligent, and with the same instincts. We are far from being superior to those ancients in mind and body, all we have is a mountain to their meagre pile of tools and ideas. We still love to dig, forage and hunt, instincts that we have been afforded to adapt to arts and sciences so far removed from their origin that it is difficult to discern how and the why's of today.
I would love to see you make a nice eden point like the ones found here in eastern Colorado US their unique diamond profile is really incredible and I can see you know how .I once once told wood carving that you dont carve a bear you just take away everything that's not the bear I just didn't realize that you would have to remove that muck rock to find that dagger I love it when it gets to the stage where it starts ringing when u handle it really cool!
@@timothylongmore7325 you lost me on this one ps its jed clampett and I was busy checking out the chick you know the hot one with her hair in a bun and glasses I think they called her granny to pay much attention to jed !
How to turn a 6 lb rock into a 6 oz rock. A dummy chiming in here, could you cut the large rock down first and maybe make two or more items or would that not leave enough material to work with?
Salut, beaucoup par moi même, vidéos de Bernard ginelli et documentation, il y a de très bon bouquins pour débuter, notamment "the art of flintknappin"
@@adriensauvestre7000 thank you sir, in Belgium we have only very small ones, so you can do nothing with them, in the best case you can make an arrow point, so that sucks. But I can watch your video several times with pleasure so extreme nice, wish you the in life, and may Odin and Freya be by your side, greetings Oli 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Impresionante !!!! Tuve la suerte de encontrar flechas en el sur argentino y dos puntas de lanzas , siempre me pregunte como las habían hecho sin herramientas ya que la roca es muy dura ,gracias por responder mi pregunta jaja sos un maestro !!! Saludos 🇦🇷
This is one of the greatest technologies to insure the continuation of our species. The Archeological record indicates that when we started making stone tools we had become meat eaters. Also, it is noteworthy that the size of our brains & skulls inlarged. We have been making stone tools for at least 3 million years. Truly amazing.
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