Knapping an Earlier than Clovis Paleolithic stemmed point
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- FlintKnapping Friday with Ryan Gill, knapping a stemmed point that dates back thousands of years before clovis. Similar to those found at Cooper's Ferry or the Friedkin sites.
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This was the perfect video to watch. I had a point yesterday that had a platform that did not want to release.
So I did the opposite of you, I grabbed a very large flake removal instrument and beat it until the piece shattered. And then beat those pieces.
Not good for actually making points to use, but felt great to release stress.
Plus I sprinkled the pieces over the other rocks in my bag, got to remind them who the boss is once in a while….
dude you have been one of the absolute best resources for learning to knap. watching your videos and using your tools has made me excel far faster than I most likely would have without your existence. thank you for sharing as always, and thanks for just being so dang cool.
This makes me miss my tools so bad! I'm in SLC Utah for a construction project and I've been using a survey nail on broken bottles all week 🤣
It really makes you appreciate what you have when you just have to make do!
Love the PAHK sound of a good flake removal
Really glad you are putting out these videos, great content
I love the root beer chert. I'm in Australia but I have a beautiful point that Jack Crafty made for me. Shine a light behind it and it glows 🤎
Waiting for my mastery kit and 25 lbs of rock to come in! Thanks Ryan you rock!!!
No pun intended?
Hi Ryan, nice looking point but it does differ a bit from the Cooper's Ferry stuff. Most of the WST points excavated at Cooper's were knapped from blades using a Levallois-like technique, check out the 2012 paper by Davis et al., "Lithic Technology, Cultural Transmission, and the Nature of the Far Western Paleoarchaic/Paleoindian Co-Tradition", figure 3.2. Cheers and happy knapping!
I isolated about 10 serious dangers in working rock.
Please can Ryan or one of the other pros distill down or elaborate on this for us.
Clearly risk is directly related to skill and protection.
1. Direct cuts from razor rock shards.
2. Indirect flying body and hand cuts from flying shards.
3. Eye and lip (face) injuries from both flying blunt and sharp shard fragments.
4. Scratched eye sclera and cornea lenses from aerosolized micro particles.
5. Permanent sinus and lung damage from silicosis (breathing the silica micro particles) that aerosolize and embed into membrane tissues.
6. Hand and finger blunt injuries from rock and antler strikes.
7. Secondary material bodily injuries from shards left on the floor, furniture, and embedded in clothes and hair.
8. Joint and tendon irritation and damage from mechanical work and shock waves in skeletal system.
9. Drop impact injuries from dropping large raw pieces onto legs or feet.
10. Shock wave and direct bruising on hands and legs.
Have you considered hunting pythons in the Everglades? They are so invasive that there is a bounty on them! Also, being a python bounty hunter is just about the coolest job in the world.
@Survivalnerd I did not know that, thank you for the info. It still sounds fun and exciting though!
Hope to see how shafted to a dart point. Looks too large for arrow. Might be useful as small knife??? Next vid soon???
He said it was pre-Clovis. Clovis is pre bow.
Nice point, looks like I'll have to mave a few . Thanks
I actually found something similar in Central Texas about 15 years ago
Sweet. 👍
MeatEater had a really cool video recently! Clay used a traditional wooden hand made recurve bow. He then had an expert from the local tribe make a few very specific points and arrow shafts etc. The stone point was fluted on both sides! He then used the traditional bow and arrows/points and successfully hunted and took down a big black bear! Would love to see two guys like you him team up/collaborate make bows, arrows, knives & the atlatl and go on some hunts using just what you've made!
There were a coupla those Cooper Ferry points that looked like you could bind them on and shoot them into a big muley
Hunt mode is a beautiful place
I cook that type at 450 . Comes out good if you don’t rush it.
perfect techniques used well done
Every piece of rootbeer I've ever worked has been easy except for my first one and it was nasty ,a big flake cut the tendons in my hand to the pointer finger and middle finger.
I agree with AnonymousTheSneaky
Could also use the skins on bows and knife handles
awesome...thank you
That's a fine looking point ... That dog'll hunt
Rootbeer is unforgiving as hell 😅