Flintknapping a Clovis Point and the Paleoindian Period
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2021
- As the Ice Age was ending in North America, people had recently entered the continents for the first time. The earliest, widely accepted cultural adaptation by these First Americans is the Clovis Tradition. Clovis is perhaps the most well known North American archaeological culture and are famous for their fluted points. In this video I discuss these Paleoindian peoples while flintknapping a reproduction Clovis point.
Very Nice video. I love your indirect fluting technique. Just this year in 2023 I made a wooden staple puller- two slats of wood about 10 to 12cm long and I tie a clovis point into it as a hold before fluting. The short stubby "teath" hold the base of the point, and the flat ends sandwich onto the tip wrapped in buckskin. This prevents end shock and results in long and delicate points with nice flutes. It would work well with your method. I break a lot with other holds.
Incredible knapping skills and very informative video! Learned a lot from this video. Thank you.
Your production quality is always top notch. Thumbs up.
Thanks man
I've been volunteering for paleo and archaic period digs and working in the lab this year in central Texas and your videos have given me so much new information that have helped me hold my own lol. You're a great teacher, and I've learned a lot of new techniques for my knapping too! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!
Glad to hear they’ve been helpful! You’re welcome and thank you!
Outstanding work man. Beautiful point and great video.
Nice! I’ve been wanting to see you make a Clovis for a while.
Nice point,like your method of flushing.
Very awesome video Silas! I like your channel man it's full of knowledge of the past, and may I say Beautiful Clovis my friend!
Nice Silas,loved your indirect flute. You make it easy and doable. Your narrative is well spoken. Much respect for your talent and insight 👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you!
Have you ever heard of Clovis or Dalton points being polished? I recently found what I perceived to be a polishing stone made out of a really nice fine grain sandstone and it has definite evidence of being used as a grinding, polishing, and abrading stone for stone points and tools. Incidentally, I also found a couple of stone tools not that far away and one of them showed signs of having been ground to take sharp edges off of one side so it could be held in a hand. Just curious if anyone else has come across great stones that would’ve been used to smooth rough sides or edges on points
Fine work. that's a tough point to replicate.
You sir have earned a new sub, love the knapping and the extremely informative information that goes along with it. I will be following you for new uploads as I watch your older videos in the upcoming weeks 🍻
Glad you enjoy it, hopefully you like the others just as much!
@@pathwaysofthepast so far loving everything you got up. 🍻🍻
Nice shaft punch on the flute! Marty has another excellent graduate.
Excellent job dude. Let’s Knapp soon
Thanks David, let’s make it happen!
This is so nice , thanks for video
Great work. I would to see a video on all the tools and how they are made that you use in your knapping. Thanks for your work and all the videos that you have done.
You’re welcome! Thank you
I have a theory on Clovis point production but my current tools are good enough to test it to a full extent, I think they placed the point between two slabs of wood, then they stepped down on it allowing for the flake to run a longer route, I think they then would hit the hollow base with a punch and hammer, I did it once and it fluted a decent bit, but I've done it once and I used an antler tine instead of a punch simply because I haven't found enough antler to make a punch yet
Very cool, why were you abrading the edge with another lithic? Did it assist with further reduction?
WOW !
Awesome work
Nice work. Great skill.
Another fine piece of craftsmanship. What animal are your billets and pressure flakers from. I really enjoy your style and flintknapping skills, you've taught me alot in the last year. Please keep them videos coming.
Thank you. My billets are all moose antler, while my tine pressure flaker is moose and the composite pressure flaker is whitetail deer.
I like the outro music it reminds me of the last of us
Looks good Silas. I've been wanting to make some paleos from Hixton but that stuff is so hard to get ahold of .
It sure is. I was able to snag a small box a few years back and have only one piece left I think.
The flute possibly could aid in the bloodletting as well.
Can u make a vid on that fluke tool plz I want to make one
Marty Reuter has some videos on it on his channel Flintknappingtips
a few months after this video was uploaded - it came to light that human footprints found at White Sands Nat'l Park in New Mexico were carbon dated (that is - the seeds in the stratigraphy) to 21 to 23,000 cal yrs BP - long before the clovis culture - which doesn't undermine your statement at 0:51 that clovis was the first "widespread cultural adaptation"
Correct. The White Sands Footprints and other pre Clovis sites show that people where here in the Americas before Clovis. There just isn’t a clear pattern of material culture between this different sites. Hopefully I’ll have a video on the White Sands Footprints soon.
Sweet Si!!!
Thanks Tony!
The reason for the flute was because they split their shafts instead of carving them out to mount the point. When they flutes the point it made it fit extremely well with a split shaft / foreshaft
I think you meant to say PaleoNativeAmerican because Indians are from India.
I get that the term Indian is a misnomer. However, the term Paleoindian is the archaeological term that’s used. The term does need to be updated but I didn’t want to use a term that I came up with myself and confuse people on what I’m referring to.
@@pathwaysofthepast I get what you're saying.
@@pathwaysofthepast - as an american indian - i don't mind being called "indian"
Your doing it wrong
Doing what’s wrong?