| At about 2.6 million years ago, some clever hominids were knapping stone tools. |
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| The whole way along you'll be invited to handle prehistoric objects and view films on the making of fire and flint knapping. |
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| Ohio flint, which is among the finest flint in North America, was worked extensively by prehistoric Indians and is widely sought for knapping and use in the lapidary trade. |
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| Flint knapping, fire making or the different techniques used to paint the interior of caves, are part of the contents of this workshop. |
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| A few pieces survived, along with knapping flakes. |
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| If numerous techniques of flint knapping and material making have long been studied, little research has been carried out on prehistoric time measurement techniques. |
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| The book is made of a first part, with an introduction followed by seven chapters on raw material, knapping, shaping, débitage, retouching, technological reading, and drawing. |
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| Several of the men show great dexterity in shaping stones into implements, a process known as stone or flint knapping. |
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| Other trenches have revealed chipped wood flakes, flint knapping flakes and even wound fibres that appear to have been used as string. |
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| But the Neanderthals refined the art of knapping to create the Levallois spear head, an intricately faceted point that could effectively maim or kill an animal as large as a mammoth. |
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| In a similar way, animal bones were often used as knapping tools. |
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| They were first extracted for fabrication into flint axes in the Neolithic period, then for knapping into flintlocks. |
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| The process is known as knapping and the results are knapped flints. |
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| It shows entire bifacial knapping, with removals all over the surface. |
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| Demonstrations covering bronze axe casting, iron smelting, flint knapping, coil pots and wood turning have been arranged by outreach officer Steve Thurston. |
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| The trip includes presentations by specialists in American Indian rock art, archeological method and theory, flint knapping, ethnobotany and on-site archeological field work. |
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| They consider obtaining the raw materials, the technology of biface knapping, a world typology of large cutting tools, the meaning of cleavers, and regional perspectives. |
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| Knapping was done using antler batons, hardwood batons and soft stone hammers. |
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