Peter is a really nice guy and knows a ton. He lives not to far from me and has helped me when I did some flintknapping in my early teens. I was supposed to go with him some time to his gathering spots, but it sadly never came to be, or at least not yet! Just a fun thing I thought I would ad is that in Swedish a flintknapper is actually called a "flintsmed" (flint-smith), which I think is kind off funny as I went from flintsmithing to doing fulltime blacksmithing.
Thank Wii, a great video! I can't believe how Peter makes it look almost effortless - such a skill. I like the close-up shots, they work really well. Great to see the two of you at work in such an amazing setting.
@@AndyH.200 ahh cheers Andy appreciate you saying about the close ups, I did have to chop the video quite hard because of wind noise and keeping in the moment and awkward moments because the technique covers the shot from the camera etc, still there is a little in there hey bro
Yeah! Peter is partly responsible for the last few years of my flint knapping activities. Im from Texas so got plenty of knapping material here. Ive probably been to fifteen or twenty knapins since ive started blade core tech and everyone always wonders what the heck im doing and why not just make a biface Marshall, corner tang or Montelle etc. "What are you going to do with all them blades" they ask? Most people think your plan is to make a cool looking core. What they dont realize is your trying to make useable blades. I dont have many cores to show because they are truly exhausted. Just the opposite of fluting a Cumberland or Clovis where you want to keep the core and debitage the flute itself. Doing these blades obviously you want the blade and the core dont matter unless you can get another blade from it! When you cant you discard it! Thats why we find them more than the used beat up blades. Learning this tech requires learning box or square sectioning as well. The tech to make the Danish dagger stitching is an example as well as preparing cores. OK Ill shut up now. Great to see you guys together!!
Last fall I found a used up discarded blade core tip in a local Kentucky creek where I hunt artifacts. Made from nice high quality black chert that's not local to Kentucky. Likely traded for or gathered outta state.
Excellent video! I drool at the thought of having such a great source of flint nearby. Here in Nova Scotia the only place to find it is in old ballast piles left on shore from English ships.
I have a question: how does one actually go about acquiring flint? Because I'm pretty sure both Denmark and Sweden don't just allow anyone to just go around picking up large quantities of rocks without permission. So how does one go about it? I'm a bit interested in getting into knapping as a hobby, so I would really like to know how to get my hands on material:)
@@gustavchambert7072 obtaining stones can be really tricky and quite often very expensive due to shipping costs but napping does take place all over the world and there are many sources. You just have to explore locally with other people that are doing similar things and see what they are working with isn’t legal to collect Flint from most beachesbeing a Flint Knapper you have to take a few risks and all honesty no harm is being done because the volume that is collected is generally so small sometimes if you are associated to Rite organisations you can get permission otherwise quarrys are quite good places to explore the alternative, I guess is obsidian but you need to know where to go and find it
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival thanks, I get it :) I'm definitely not above yoinking a few very specific rocks here and there, even if it's technically not 100% allowed, so I wasn't judging. I just wanted to know if you guys who do this in a more professional capacity (and more importantly, quantity) had some established channels. Thanks for the input, the inspiration and all the great content:)
Build skills on similar materials. Local rock and gravel retailer brings in artistic landscaping materials and has a bin of obsidian glass the size of footballs sold by the pound. They do not have any flint/chert though because I asked. Thick bottom liquor bottles. Other stones.
I've 'stolen' plenty of bits of flint from farmers fields though a lot of it tends to have fractures from ploughing. I also have found some quite decent sized flint pebbles over my local parks, but they are quite different from the big flint nodules and I find it difficult to end up with something I can make into an arrow head because of having to split the pebbles and remove the cortex. I would just go somewhere where there is flint and knap it there (keep any decent flakes or pieces that you can make into something).
Obviously there is great understanding of the materials and how the strikes will impact them... but what is a 'core'? Are the shards removed to be blades? or is the core to become one of those square profile axes? Some people 'whittle' sticks down to nothing just for the fun of it - is there an objective in what is being done in the vid?
The core is essentially the large piece of material blades are removed from. It'd more of a summarizing name. In this instance it's a blade core, and it is simply used to remove blades until the core is exhausted meaning it can no longer be used. Probably because it has become so small it can't offer any more blades. 👍🏼 A blade is a flake twice as long as it is wide so a majority of the removals here are blades. The earlier flakes taken off to set up the core are just flakes as they're irregular in size and shape
Watching Peter dance his way around that beautiful core was a pleasure. Cheers Will!
Great to see two renowned experts keeping the ancient arts alive.
That's a lot of blades. Thank you for the demonstration.
Peter is a really nice guy and knows a ton. He lives not to far from me and has helped me when I did some flintknapping in my early teens. I was supposed to go with him some time to his gathering spots, but it sadly never came to be, or at least not yet!
Just a fun thing I thought I would ad is that in Swedish a flintknapper is actually called a "flintsmed" (flint-smith), which I think is kind off funny as I went from flintsmithing to doing fulltime blacksmithing.
No Bronze-smithing?
@bigbasil1908 have done some, but not a lot.
Thank Wii, a great video! I can't believe how Peter makes it look almost effortless - such a skill. I like the close-up shots, they work really well. Great to see the two of you at work in such an amazing setting.
@@AndyH.200 ahh cheers Andy appreciate you saying about the close ups, I did have to chop the video quite hard because of wind noise and keeping in the moment and awkward moments because the technique covers the shot from the camera etc, still there is a little in there hey bro
Wow. What a beautiful place and such a show of skill. I bet that was a really amazing experience. Thanks for sharing.
@@taylorsnyderutube cheers and your most welcome
Absolutely amazing how natural he is at making blades
Yeah! Peter is partly responsible for the last few years of my flint knapping activities. Im from Texas so got plenty of knapping material here. Ive probably been to fifteen or twenty knapins since ive started blade core tech and everyone always wonders what the heck im doing and why not just make a biface Marshall, corner tang or Montelle etc. "What are you going to do with all them blades" they ask? Most people think your plan is to make a cool looking core. What they dont realize is your trying to make useable blades. I dont have many cores to show because they are truly exhausted. Just the opposite of fluting a Cumberland or Clovis where you want to keep the core and debitage the flute itself. Doing these blades obviously you want the blade and the core dont matter unless you can get another blade from it! When you cant you discard it! Thats why we find them more than the used beat up blades. Learning this tech requires learning box or square sectioning as well. The tech to make the Danish dagger stitching is an example as well as preparing cores. OK Ill shut up now. Great to see you guys together!!
All I could think of was two men learning from each other 100.000 years ago.
Last fall I found a used up discarded blade core tip in a local Kentucky creek where I hunt artifacts. Made from nice high quality black chert that's not local to Kentucky. Likely traded for or gathered outta state.
Like a frog at 4:16 peter extents belly support to navigate flat area and support core. Haha. Brilliant
Instant blades, right there!
Nice spot! Something about being at sea level with the flint, same as it ever was.
Genio de la prehistoria
Master of the bladecores
Excellent
Excellent video! I drool at the thought of having such a great source of flint nearby. Here in Nova Scotia the only place to find it is in old ballast piles left on shore from English ships.
Ancient man was amazing, an expert at using what Nature provided. How long will it take us to reacquire such knowledge?
2:28 would not want the leather to slip down while using that technique. easy way to win the darwin award.
Awesome 👌
Crazy skills.
I would travel half way around the world to meet you and get a class on flint knapping
Great video Will!
Peter likes to keep the long triangular flakes , or did some years ago 😊
🎶We're just sittin' on the beach by the bay, watchin' millions of years get knapped away🎶
His style looks like it would be hard on the "family jewels", if you know what I mean!
I have a question: how does one actually go about acquiring flint?
Because I'm pretty sure both Denmark and Sweden don't just allow anyone to just go around picking up large quantities of rocks without permission. So how does one go about it?
I'm a bit interested in getting into knapping as a hobby, so I would really like to know how to get my hands on material:)
@@gustavchambert7072 obtaining stones can be really tricky and quite often very expensive due to shipping costs but napping does take place all over the world and there are many sources. You just have to explore locally with other people that are doing similar things and see what they are working with isn’t legal to collect Flint from most beachesbeing a Flint Knapper you have to take a few risks and all honesty no harm is being done because the volume that is collected is generally so small sometimes if you are associated to Rite organisations you can get permission otherwise quarrys are quite good places to explore the alternative, I guess is obsidian but you need to know where to go and find it
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival thanks, I get it :) I'm definitely not above yoinking a few very specific rocks here and there, even if it's technically not 100% allowed, so I wasn't judging.
I just wanted to know if you guys who do this in a more professional capacity (and more importantly, quantity) had some established channels.
Thanks for the input, the inspiration and all the great content:)
Build skills on similar materials. Local rock and gravel retailer brings in artistic landscaping materials and has a bin of obsidian glass the size of footballs sold by the pound. They do not have any flint/chert though because I asked. Thick bottom liquor bottles. Other stones.
I've 'stolen' plenty of bits of flint from farmers fields though a lot of it tends to have fractures from ploughing. I also have found some quite decent sized flint pebbles over my local parks, but they are quite different from the big flint nodules and I find it difficult to end up with something I can make into an arrow head because of having to split the pebbles and remove the cortex. I would just go somewhere where there is flint and knap it there (keep any decent flakes or pieces that you can make into something).
Bro found a natural cylinder
How the hell
i found a rock like this in Maryland but it wasn't Flint of course
thinking that yes we have made some progress as a species
Obviously there is great understanding of the materials and how the strikes will impact them... but what is a 'core'? Are the shards removed to be blades? or is the core to become one of those square profile axes?
Some people 'whittle' sticks down to nothing just for the fun of it - is there an objective in what is being done in the vid?
The core is essentially the large piece of material blades are removed from. It'd more of a summarizing name. In this instance it's a blade core, and it is simply used to remove blades until the core is exhausted meaning it can no longer be used. Probably because it has become so small it can't offer any more blades. 👍🏼
A blade is a flake twice as long as it is wide so a majority of the removals here are blades.
The earlier flakes taken off to set up the core are just flakes as they're irregular in size and shape
@@graphiccontent98 Cheers for the answer. Great vids.