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| Awesome first biface |
Last night was the second MUNArch Percussion Flintknapping workshop. With the 11 participants from last night, we had a total of 24 people turn out this week. This is the most interest that I've seen in knapping here for years. The
MUNArch executive did a great job of organizing and pulling this all together. We'll all be back at it next month for the Pressure Flaking workshops.
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| Emotions ran high |
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| A few of the pieces turned out. A pretty impressive toolkit, with bifaces, unifaces, points and blades. |
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| grinding is essential |
My throat was feeling pretty ragged by the end of the evening. I've been fighting a sore throat for the past couple of days and a dry coating of silica dust really didn't help any. But everyone did a great job. 7:30 slid by again without anyone noticing and its was well after 8 before we though about wrapping things up. I don't think we went through as many bandaids as we did on Tuesday, but I saw a lot of red fingers.
Another good session - thanks again to MUNArch for sponsoring these workshops.
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| leather upholstery samples make good knee pads |
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| We'll see these flakes again for pressure flaking. |
Photo Credits: Tim Rast
Hey there.
ReplyDeletethis looks fantastic! would love to come to a workshop. am in South Africa though. too far away.
but would like to mention... i was out picking up MSA bi-facial points earlier this week.
Yeah, that would be a heck of a commute. I think the products from these workshops would sit comfortably in a Middle Stone Age collection, but I'm jealous of you getting to see the real thing.
ReplyDeletewill see if i can post a photo in here.
DeleteYou might be able to post a link to a photo. You can post picks on my Facebook page if you like - I'm sure folks would love to see the artifacts.
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Deleteand added it to your page. :)