#knapping
Y'all asses gonna be subjected to the next year of me getting decent at flint knapping, watch
November 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Flint knapping* not flit knapping 🤦
October 31, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I wonder why I don't do more flint knapping and also where this 3 cm cut came from.
October 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM
it’s actually very hard to create pointy teeth with a baseball bat ☝️🤓
I imagine it’s done more like stone tool creation with knapping 🤔
October 31, 2026 at 12:56 PM
the thing with wedge issues is hedging not only doesn't work, but that through the act of hedging you allow the social fabric to be fracked, the right wing chipping off little groups here and there, knapping away at the flint until they can knock a big chunk off. hedging never works
October 31, 2026 at 6:07 AM
#tavqotd fun facts 😌

willow (tiefling) is quite skilled in flit knapping and wood carving its one of her favorite hobbies

while gwen (half elf) knows sign language and used to use it with her twin brother as their own secret language
October 31, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Just don't tell them about knapping, it'll be fine.
October 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
i was able to figure out how to strike on the right points to do that little wierd thing where you hit the top surface and a bottom portion will flake off. its super cool to actually do once you figure it out. but actually knapping the obisidan flakes i made was kinda hard.
November 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Neanderthals kept separate spots for sleeping, knapping and trash, which really cuts against the old picture of messy cavemen. Abric Romaní in Spain showed something similar, with activity clustered around its hearths.
November 3, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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November 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Egizio in Turin. They've sat in museum storage since then and are the subject of this study. Turns out, 3,000 artefacts tell a fascinating story of a flint workshop run by people skilled at knapping, but in a village of farmers. An example of "arbitrary

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October 31, 2026 at 5:36 AM
That pecked grip is such a nice detail. Shaping the body by pecking and knapping only the edge feels like the same mindset as the polished axes, just more practical. I bet it sits really well in the hand.
October 30, 2026 at 7:55 AM
i got one if those survival daggers as gift last year, collecting them is definetly on my list. would also wanna look into stone knapping and craft my own knives
October 28, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Whether shaping stone thousands of years ago or preparing for tomorrow’s careers, the tools change — but human ingenuity remains the ultimate harvest.

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October 27, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This fallacy is known as "oversimplification".

If Vance believed what he's saying here, he wouldn't use combustion engines, electric motors, weather forecasts, or anything made using any technology more advanced than basic rocks, because he doesn't understand flint knapping, either.
JD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win...The fact it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way"
October 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Gesture is such a tricky thing to pin down from what's left in the ground. Tool wear and knapping debris feel like the obvious way into Mesolithic material, so I'd love to see how that comes through once you're standing in the 360 room.
October 29, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Good sites get recycled over & over. First a knapping flint pit 9000yrs ago, then something else 4000yrs ago, and then a ringfort presumably 2-3000yrs ago. And now a solar farm!
9,000-year-old 'Swiss Army kit' found in Co Wicklow
Researchers at the Threecastles Solar Farm near Blessington have discovered what is believed to be the oldest archaeological site ever excavated in Co Wicklow.
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October 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
[CW:Dated Imagery] Oct 1931: The Boy's Own Paper ad from Meccano Magazine

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October 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM
that would be sick as hell with using murrini scrap or pattern bars. or any manner of techniques where knapping would exposed a pattern inside. do you know if there are particular properties of glass that would make it cleave well for that purpose? bc i could send you some if 90coe soda lime works
October 26, 2026 at 3:22 AM
These are called blanks, used for knapping obsidian blades and points
October 23, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Now this is a beautiful piece of flint knapping. #artifacts #archaeology
Found eyes only whilst metal detecting in Mid Suffolk.

An almost complete Neolithic leaf-shaped flint arrow head with all over bifacial working. It has shallow S and reversed S edge profiles.

4000BC - 2200BC

Discovered in 2002
October 21, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Students of Professor Gil Tostevin’s Introduction to Flint Knapping class recently had an outdoor workshop to practice this ancient skill.

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October 23, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Like back in the day if someone was knapping flint or making a fire, was there, in your sense, a little magic to doing that, especially if they understood what they were doing in terms of a gift from a culture hero or an animistic conception of the natural world?
October 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
i wanna get into flint knapping too aaaa
October 21, 2026 at 11:21 PM
“Dad, I have HAD it with your incessant urge to shit all over my flint-knapping technique, and Grandpa did NOT do it better: I’m leaving all you assholes behind on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and dispersing the hell out of Africa.”
October 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM