Knapping

usually by striking.

So the two kind of fit together, flint striking, flint shaping by striking, flint knapping.

But particularly in the US and elsewhere around the world, you get lots of other materials, not just flint.

Here in the UK, it's mostly flint tools.

But the reason why it's almost always flint knapping... is because the word flint knapping was really coined during the gun flint manufacture and the trade of little flint locks for the muskets.

And it's flint that provides a far superior spark.

So that's where the word itself comes from that we use in archaeology.

So if somebody is wanting to get started in this, what would you recommend they do?

Well, if you know somebody that does flint knapping, want to be there you want to kind of get close to them other than that there's a ton of videos out there might better explain the angle that that you hold in this piece the angle that you that you're moving your your tool uh There's a lot of videos out there on flint knapping and different methods of doing.

What I've done here and what I do is all direct pressure and percussion flaking.

There's a there's a lot of people that use indirect percussion and that is it helps you be a little more accurate in the way that you hit that you might hit the rock and I can show you just here quickly how that indirect so This is still going to be my tool, but I'm not going to use