From Rifle to Kalashnikov
At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000 ya) global temperatures started to increase. During this climatic shift, known as the...
A Flintknapper's Toolkit
The word knapping, used to describe the act of chipping off stone flakes with a hammerstone, originates from the Dutch onomatopoeic verb...
Burins, the Chisels of the Late Ice Age
Burins are not much to look at but these blades with their chiseled edges were not only the most important tool in the reindeer hunters’...
Flint
Flint, also known as hornstone, chert or silex, is one of the most common, hardest and most durable rocks. Because of these...
