Flintknapping tools

Archéofact enr.
Michel Cadieux

        Flintknapping tools

Stone tools is representative of technologies and of the adaptation modes of the prehistoric populations. The fixed counterparts make it possible to make a interpretative analogy of their use. The flintknapping tools is obtained by direct or indirect percussion with a hammerstone. The finition is produced by pressure flaking with antlers pips. Several years of research, of experiments and try allow today to carry out the following objects:

- Projectile point
- Knife
- Pump drill
- Scraper
- Beamer

On request, some of these tools can be hafted and fixed with the believed skin, of the sinew or the roots.


		Paleo-indian points					Typology of northeast projectile points
		Paleo-indian points					Typology of northeast projectile points

		Typology of Mississipian's projectile points					Eccentric form
		Typology of Mississipian's projectile points					Eccentric form

		Variety of tools					The making of a projectile point
		Variety of tools					The making of a projectile point


		War club, hafted points, aztek knife en obsidienne					Obsidian's projectile points
		War club, hafted points, aztek knife en obsidienne					Obsidian's projectile points