The Flintknapper, Making Stone Tools 

Its so nice to see another female knapper. We are a rarity...I was beginning to think I was the only one. It helps that I live in Oregon near Glass Buttes where obsidian is all over the ground. Take care Sister Knapper. May your flakes be long and your points sharp. Julie

Angela does some great work and it is nice to see her at work on this video. She has a lot of good things to say! I believe that a lot of knapping was done by women during the times people made and used stone tools, this just proves my theory correct. She is a true knapper! -Paleoman52-

I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting Angela Parker at the Bois D'Arc Primitive Skills Camp this past weekend. Angela is the nicest, pleasant person to talk to. Real down to earth, no pun intended. Angela's skills are off the chart awesome. Just ordered her dvd Flint knapping: 100 pounds of attitude. Can't wait to see her at the Bois D'Arc next year. Thank you Angela for being my friend

Very nice piece

WOW. ME DELIGHT SEEING YOU WORK. YOUR VERY GOOD COMMENTS.

Love for flintnappers ❤ keep the lost art alive!!!

Such a beautiful work of art! That you for sharing.

Just two days ago, I have been paying attention to flintknapping. Now I am thinking of taking it up.

It is such a wonderful surprise to see a woman flint-knapper! Angela, do you have a RU-vid channel? I would enjoy watching and learning from your videos.

Angela you do exceptional work. I honestly think woman have way more patience than men in general hence the quality you achieve. Great video.

I wish my girlfriend or my friends for that matter would be flint knapper. The hobby would be less lonely

Very nice work!!!

You are absolutely incredible!

Very good job. TY for shareing PEACE

Beautiful work.

Well done, beautiful stone work. I am an artist also, a stone carver and I agree with you, there is always a balance. Thanks for sharing, Rock on! Arrorock

Very nice Angela.....I enjoyed your video! Thad Beckum

Beautiful!

Literally the first female flintknapper I’ve ever seen! 😱

Just found your channel & subscribed.

I'm very impressed Angela, thats awesome.

Wow so glad seeing your video! Yes I’m wanting to do same! I e been watching videos & wondering what changes I can make process since I don’t have the same muscle strength as he guys! I live in in far west Texas- more southern part- so wondering about finding chert, making/buying tools on not much money, finding other flintknappers, etc! I’ve found a few artifacts in my own yard plus some pieces of chert obviously left behind from someone oh and lots of little painted rocks often tools I think. I grew up in the Dakotas, fly fished and rock climbed with the boys so have kinda had your same situation. I always have looked for arrowheads EVERY WHERE but nada so now I’m just gonna make my own! Help!

this is something i have never seen before, id love to see a tool for skinning a deer.i am very impressed.

Hi Angela. Haven't seen hide nor hair of you since that DC Waldorf vid of you.

wow...very nice..

I have just starting to pay attention to the flintknapping as of Dec 1, 2017.

This is a great video I just started napping myself and I’ve been trying to find some in creeks when I’m fishing and I land when I’m serving here and there that’s an interesting colored piece

i spent many a year in Washington state Oregon and Idaho and parts of Montana and i tried working with shale and obsidian I can not even coun t the cuts i got on my hands and legs and even a cut on a arm or two my older cousin tried to get me into it , he would make his own arrow heads and shafts from reeds and do his own fletching's as well , wish i would have stayed with it i have seen many do beautiful work with what nature has placed at our grasp ..

I'm speechless.....

hahaha i love the added sound effect at 1:03

Awesome.

Nice!

nice job Angela ...

u r awesome...

How cool is that! My standards for wife material just went up lol

I wonder if fire was accidentally discovered by female flint-knappers? That's a magnificent piece of work, btw.

Excellent. I'm a wanna be knapper. I try to keep the edge straight and sharp on my flintlock rifles. I've thought about trying arrowheads but need to find good candidate flint, watch someone do it right and instruction.

i sent you a video response from here in canada

All my x's live in Texas

kool !

Prettiest knapper I ever seen.

Im in love........

do u find your flint..or creat..I think that is how you spell it...probley not...

Love that ending point. Whatever the gender that is a great tip.

Angela, YOU ARE A FINE CHICK. YES YOU ARE CORRECT WHEN YOU SAID THERE IS GOOD AND BAD FLAKES. THE BAD FLACKS ARE TRYING TO PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK INTO THE STONE AGE. THERE ARE GOOD FLACKS LIKE YOURSELF THAT WILL SAVE OUR COUNTRY. LOVE YOUR WORK AND WOULD LIKE TO LEARN THE TRADE. THANK YOU👍🇺🇸

Most beautiful caveman.

Angela do you have a website or any type of contact email etc...Thank You Tommy

She should have kept making these videos she’d be rich by now

women always made them arrows and bows this is part of native womens way

I like the video, well made. But I am not so sure about rocks "wanting" anything. It is what we can make from it, what we see in it.

He doesn't flint Knapp I don't think but ever see Bob Garrett?

Every trade loves and needs more women

Angela You are beautiful.

I can see the logic in that, but based on all the documentaries that I have watched about the indeginous tribes across the globe I have yet to see a woman doing anything other than keeping the fire going, grinding some kind of meal, or breast feeding a child. I suspect that it is more likely that while men were on the hunt they saw that the different tips were better for different things, something that the women couldn't see unless they were there, so the men made their tips for specific hunts.

English xxxAmATUR MISSSPERU

Is this an educational video? If so, why are you using non organic tools to flint knapp? Up until at least 6 thousand years ago in North America copper was not used for stone tool industries. The Archeological record indicates that copper was considered for precious ornamental use. Bone, stone, antler, ivory, horn, hoof & wood were leaving their signatures on stone. Perhaps when indiginous people started to smelt copper it was more abundant & possibly used to make stone tools. Copper nuggets undoubtedly were found and tried. However, nuggets big enough probably were prized. When they learned to smelt perhaps copper was more abundant & less valuable. Therefore a pre-Neolithic approach is where true knowledge is found. This is what the Archeological record seems to indicate. Vincent James Ajello (Lithic Technologist/researcher)

I don't understand why the usa flintknappers use modern flintknapping tools, if you use modern tools and slabs you can't say that you are a flintknapper, the flintknapping is with stone and antler tools, the flintknapping now is to discover how the humans make their tools and also use this tools to see how it works (i don't know how no explain correctly in English but i think you could understand me)