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- Title
EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION OF HAMMER AND BAR FLINTKNAPPING TO KNIFE LAKE SILTSTONE FROM NORTHERN MINNESOTA.
- Authors
Wendt, Dan; Romano, Anthony D.
- Abstract
The hammer and bar method of indirect percussion flintknapping was applied to Knife Lake Siltstone from Northern Minnesota, yielding results that closely replicate the flake scar appearance of some prehistoric artifacts from the region. Pressure flaking, direct percussion and indirect percussion by hammer and bar were compared experimentally to each other and then to actual artifacts. The hammer and bar technique leaves characteristic wide and deeply concave flaking patterns on the resulting bifaces. Hammer and bar is well suited to making large bifaces from this tenacious and coarse lithic material. Archaeological evidence for a hammer and bar tool kit is examined.
- Subjects
KNIFE Lake (Minn. &; Ont.); MINNESOTA; ONTARIO; FLINTKNAPPING; ANTIQUITIES; OUTCROPS (Geology); GEOLOGY
- Publication
Minnesota Archaeologist, 2009, Vol 68, p21
- ISSN
0026-5403
- Publication type
Article