Keyword

flint knapping

Description: A technique for shaping flint and other stone by striking or pressing to remove flakes, studied in archaeology and experimental craft.

Primary topic: Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (47%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q13645339

OpenAlex ID: keywords/flint-knapping

3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

2015 · Sonia Harmand, Jason E. Lewis, et al. · Nature · 1,120

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Identification de chaînes opératoires lithiques du Paléolithique ancien et moyen

1990 · Eric Boëda, Jean-Michel Geneste, et al. · Paléo · 489

2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

2003 · Sileshi Semaw, Michael J Rogers, et al. · Journal of Human Evolution · 460

Macro and Micro Wear Traces on Lithic Projectile Points

1984 · ANDERS FISCHER, PETER VEMMING HANSEN, et al. · Journal of Danish Archaeology · 433

Flintknapping: making and understanding stone tools

1994 · Choice Reviews Online · 358

An introduction to flintworking

1972 · Don E. Crabtree, Guy Muto, et al. · Idaho State University Museum eBooks · 286

Woodworking activities by early humans: a plant residue analysis on Acheulian stone tools from Peninj (Tanzania)

2001 · M. Dominguez- Rodrigo, J. Serrallonga, et al. · Journal of Human Evolution · 266

The fragmented character of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool technology

2013 · Alain Turq, Wil Roebroeks, et al. · Journal of Human Evolution · 235

Some quantitative experiments in handaxe manufacture

1971 · M. H. Newcomer · World Archaeology · 217

Flintknapping

1994 · John C. Whittaker · University of Texas Press eBooks · 214

Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

2010 · Dietrich Stout, Sileshi Semaw, et al. · Journal of Human Evolution · 213

The Cutting edge: new approaches to the archaeology of human origins

2010 · Choice Reviews Online · 211

Understanding Levallois: Lithic Technology and Cognitive Archaeology

1996 · Nathan Schlanger · Cambridge Archaeological Journal · 195

The role of raw material differences in stone tool shape variation: an experimental assessment

2014 · Metin I. Eren, Christopher I. Roos, et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science · 182

Percussion tools in Olduvai Beds I and II (Tanzania): Implications for early human activities

2005 · Rafael Mora, Ignacio de la Torre · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · 166

The Early Stone Age lithic assemblages of Gadeb (Ethiopia) and the Developed Oldowan/early Acheulean in East Africa

2011 · Ignacio de la Torre · Journal of Human Evolution · 162

Introduction: Archaeological Approaches to Lithic Production Skill and Craft Learning

2008 · Douglas B. Bamforth, Nyree Finlay · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · 157

Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East

2013 · John J. Shea · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 156

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Spatial Organization of Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel

2009 · Nira Alperson-Afil, Gonen Sharon, et al. · Science · 156

New experimental evidence on the relation between percussion flaking and flake variation

1981 · Harold L. Dibble, John C. Whittaker · Journal of Archaeological Science · 156

Learning in Lithic Landscapes: A Reconsideration of the Hominid “Toolmaking” Niche

2014 · Peter Hiscock · Biological Theory · 151

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Omo Revisited

2004 · Ignacio de la Torre · Current Anthropology · 151

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Toward the analysis of lithic production systems

1984 · Jonathon E. Ericson · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 144

Technology of knapped stone

1992 · Marie‐Louise Inizan, Jacques Tixier, et al. · 143

An Archaeologist's Guide to Chert and Flint. By Barbara E. Luedtke.

1994 · P. Nick Kardulias · American Journal of Archaeology · 142

Works count: 4,462

Citation count: 24,020