Re: Flint knapping

Amy Hirschfeld (ahirschf@HUSC.HARVARD.EDU)
Wed, 7 Sep 1994 12:04:08 -0400

On Wed, 7 Sep 1994, wilkr wrote:

> There was a paper, I recall, on recent flint knapping among Turkish
> peasants, in a book edited by Richard Gould, "The Archaeology of US" back
> in the late 1970s, from academic press.
>

There is also a fascinating film about the same Turkish peasants (I
think) which simply shows them quarrying flint and making tools. I don't
know the name of it for sure, but can find out the details if anyone is
interested.

-Amy Hirschfeld
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University