Knapping
The process of making chipped stone tools. This is done so by hitting a rock or a material with a hammer or a sturdy tool and forming the rock to shape. Someone who does knapping is called a knapper.
Knapping Media
Flintknapping a stone tool
A leather leg guard protects the knapper from being injured by the edges of the flint.
An example of soft hammer percussion used in flintknapping. en:ZenTrowel
Ceremonial offering of Aztec sacrificial flint knife blades at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City
A gun-flint mounted in the jaws of a flintlock musket
Knapped flint walls and flushwork at the church of Stratford St. Mary
French prehistorian Jacques Tixier offers modern training in stone knapping.
.jpg)
