Flint Knapping: A Guide to Making Your Own Stone Age Tool Kit

Robert Turner

ISBN 10: 0752488740 / ISBN 13: 9780752488745

Published by The History Press, 2013

About this Item

2013. Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 8 colour plates, 25 colour illustrations, 75 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HD; WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 388. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flint Knapping: A Guide to Making Your Own Stone Age Tool Kit
• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752488740
• ISBN 13: 9780752488745
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Flint knapping, which is the shaping of flint or other fracturing stone to manufacture tools, was one of the primary skills used for survival by our prehistoric ancestors. Early mankind once made and used these implements on a daily basis to hunt, prepare food and clothing, to farm, make shelters, and perform all the other tasks required for Stone Age existence.

A material that has been with us since earliest times, flint still plays a part in our lives today: it is used in cigarette, gas and barbeque lighters; in some parts of Britain it is a major building material; and many of our beaches have shingle which is just flint by another name.

In this informative and original guide, expert Robert Turner explains how flint was used, what tools were made and what they were made for, and provides detailed instruction of how to make them, enabling the reader to replicate their own Stone Age toolkit. Illustrated throughout, Flint Knapping is a journey of archaeological discovery through the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

About the Author

ROBERT TURNER and his wife Gillian are both members of Worthing Archaeological Society and Sussex Archaeological Society. Robert is also a flint knapper and a member of the Lithics Society, sometimes working with professional archaeologists. He runs flint courses at Butser Iron Age Village, was a tutor for Sussex University, and has over the years lectured and demonstrated flint tools to local societies and history groups. He also teaches at schools. He lives in West Sussex.