A Guide to Platform Preparation: Creating Biface Tools with Hard Hammers -
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode of #KnapTime, James will be taking you through a step by step guide to platform preparation in the process of making bifaces. This video will focus on preparing a raw flint nodule with hammerstone strikes, reading angles and setting up the correct angles for your platforms for those really invasive flakes. This is a fundamental part of flintknapping that is mirrored on a large scale for axe heads and right down to pressure flaking arrowheads. As James works through the primary cortical flakes and begins to open up the flint, he discusses the use of tools like abraders, and a little bit of antler hammer work. This video is very much focuses on technique and understanding rather than trying to produce a specific tool type.
Filmed Edited & Produced by Emma Jones of ELWJ Media - www.elwjmedia.co.uk
A special thanks to the Lithics Society and the Wymer Bursary.
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dilley just know his stuff and is easy to listen to.this channel is my #1 on knapping, tied with jack crafty for modern knapping.
where you been dude!!! Very happy to see this pop up!!!
Very useful. Thanks!
Missed your guidance! Welcome back Knapp time! 🎉❤ can I ask- do you have any tips for those of us who live in colder climes (above 10,000ft altitude) for indoor knapping? I would like to keep practicing over the winter, but I have pets and am afraid of indoor razor chips. Thank you!
Even more important is the dust produced. YOU DON'T WANT TO BREATHE IT! A fan or a mask is a must. Silicosis is a dibilitating lung desease caused by breathing in the tiny sharp shards of silicon based material.
@@dooleyfussle8634 Ugh! Such a good call, my friend. I’m a miner- I know all about that sneaky junk. 😳
Think you need a knapping seat in a moulded plastic paddling pool (or similar) to catch the flakes. Definitely remember the dust issue, but sounds like you’re well aware!
@@ancientcraftUK I’m still knapping glass bottle bottoms 😅 Thanks everyone for chiming in with your ideas. Xx
Yet another excellent and captivating flint knapping video Dr. James! I have a question related to bifaces per se; when discovering a bifacial artifact, how does one determine whether the find is a common biface, or if it is specifically a dedicated hand axe? Thanks in advance!
Biface refers to any piece worked on both faces, can include handaxes, axes, knives even arrowheads. A biface blank is typically leaf or oval in shape and usually created in the production of daggers or spear tips. Handaxes are no where near as finely or as intensively flaked as a ‘blank’, so are usually much thicker.
@@ancientcraftUK thanks much! I truly appreciate it!
The first flakes with cortex are great for thin points or daggers. Only tricky part is to get rid of cortex, but just under it is, in my expirience, the highest quality flint. Once you do that you end up with long thin high quality flake. Be carefull not to snap it. Knap Knap to everyone. Great video thank you.
I think if you maybe say “what’s the weakest part of a bridge, the middle,” it may be easier to understand but it’s just a suggestion I’m not sure if the analogy would still work.
Im having trouble knapping, the edges are at 87* angles and are rough and slightly round, I try and strike but no flakes come off. Any words? Should I apply more force?
Difficult to give exact advice without seeing, but so long as you’re hitting around 5mm inwards from the edge and directly downwards then it’s just the level of force
@@ancientcraftUK Thank you so much, sir. God bless.
Your audio strength is pretty low. Enjoyed the video though.
It's not that low. Just a few decibels of gain
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The quality of these videos is excellent. Thank you.
I not sure this is the right video for this but what books can I learn more on the neolithic? Particularly the barbed spear heads they used and perhaps what type of wood they used?
Great vid. What kind of pants are those?
Fascinating. Very well explain. 🌵☀️🌊🏄♂️
Hahaha “Flint can be a real liar” 😂😂💀
incredible work!!! I'd try that myself, but with a smaller size!!
Very nice video! Where do you get your flint from? I live in the Netherlands and there is nothing like that here. I would consider renting a van to collect some in England if I knew where to go…
There is flint in southern Netherlands near Maastricht, there were even very extensive Neolithic flint mines
@@ancientcraftUK thanks for the reply! I have been to one of the best quarries in the Netherlands for collecting flint, near Maastricht, but it has since closed and been filled in. Most Rijckholt flint I’ve had my hands on is also more coarse grained than the English stuff I’ve seen too. Maybe from specific Neolithic flint mines it is better, but I don’t think we’re allowed to take flint from them! So I was just curious where you got yours…
Oh no! I didn’t know the quarry near Maastricht had gone. My flint comes from a quarry owned by Needham Chalks, they ship flint around the world by the tonne
@@ancientcraftUK wow thanks!!!
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