American Flintknappers

Stone Age Art in the Age of Computers

By: John C. Whittaker

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Making arrowheads, blades, and other stone tools was once a survival skill and is still a craft practiced by thousands of flintknappers around the world. In the United States, knappers gather at regional "knap-ins" to socialize, exchange ideas and material, buy and sell both equipment and knapped art, and make stone tools in the company of others. In between these gatherings, the knapping community stays connected through newsletters and the Internet.

In this book, avid knapper and professional anthropologist John Whittaker offers an insider's view of the knapping community. He explores why stone tools attract modern people and what making them means to those who pursue this art. He describes how new members are incorporated into the knapping community, how novices learn the techniques of knapping and find their roles within the group, how the community is structured, and how ethics, rules, and beliefs about knapping are developed and transmitted. He also explains how the practice of knapping relates to professional archaeology, the trade in modern replicas of stone tools, and the forgery of artifacts. Whittaker's book thus documents a fascinating subculture of American life and introduces the wider public to an ancient and still rewarding craft.

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"This is a superb book, authored by one of the only people with both the anthropological background and the connections in the world of contemporary flintknapping to write it. It really is unlike any work I'm aware of in lithics studies."--Michael Stafford, Director, Cranbrook Institute of Science

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Coming to the Knap-in	p. 1
The Knap-in Ethos	p. 4
Sources of Information	p. 8
The Knap-in at Fort Osage	p. 14
Making Stone Tools: The World's Oldest Craft	p. 17
The Processes of Flintknapping	p. 18
Tools and the Knappers' Ethos	p. 25
From Fakes and Experiments to Knap-ins: The Roots of Modern Flintknapping	p. 34
Charlie Shewey	p. 34
Early Archaeologists and Fakers	p. 37
Native Knappers	p. 40
Mack Tussinger and the Oklahoma Eccentrics	p. 40
Daniel, Howe, and Others	p. 46
McCormick the Folsom Fluter	p. 47
Bryon Rinehart and Grey Ghosts	p. 50
Richard Warren--Scale Work and Lap Knapping	p. 53
Patterns in the Early Modern Knappers	p. 57
Halvor Skavlem and the Hobby Knapper	p. 58
Archaeology and Replication	p. 59
Knapping Newsletters	p. 61
The First Knap-ins	p. 64
Waldorf and The Art of Flintknapping	p. 65
Transition to the Current Scene	p. 66
The Current Scene	p. 70
The Knap-in: People and Organization	p. 72
Bob Hunt, Organizer at Fort Osage	p. 72
George Eklund, Commercial Knapper	p. 76
Jim Regan, Copper Toolsmith	p. 77
Gene Stapleton, Dealing in Stone	p. 79
Percy Atkinson: Gourds, Axes, and Philosophy	p. 81
D. C. and Val Waldorf, Knap-in Professionals	p. 83
Ingrid Jones, Knapper Spouse	p. 84
Knapper Demography	p. 86
A Continent of Knap-ins	p. 92
Mid-West Flintknappers' Convention, June 1993	p. 94
Pine City Knap-in	p. 97
Evergreen Lake Knap-in, July 1996	p. 99
Genesee Valley Flint Knappers Association Knap-in, August 1996	p. 101
Flint Ridge Knap-in, August 1996	p. 107
Knap-in Generalities	p. 111
Knappers at the Knap-in	p. 112
Culture and Community of Practice	p. 113
Performance	p. 114
Learning to Knap	p. 118
Learning the Ethos	p. 123
Politics, Gender, and Ethnicity	p. 125
Expressions of Identity	p. 128
The Chipping Keeps You Going: Why Knappers Knap	p. 136
Status and Stones	p. 147
The Knap-in as Egalitarian Event	p. 148
Ooga-Booga, a Ritual of Inclusion	p. 153
Status and Competition in Knapping	p. 156
Talking with Stone: Ritual Exchanges and the Expression of Status	p. 163
Art, Craft, or Reproduction: Knapper Esthetics	p. 169
Stone Tools as Art and Folk Art	p. 172
Two Knappers, Two Attitudes	p. 180
The Ideal Point: Common Esthetic Rules	p. 180
The Rules in Action: Knapping Contests	p. 186
Imitation as Esthetic Goal	p. 193
Point Types and Artistic Choices	p. 194
Replicas and the Art of Knapping	p. 200
Can't Never Have Too Much Flint: The Lore of Stone	p. 203
The Mystique of Stone	p. 208
The Qualities of Stone	p. 210
The Quest for Stone	p. 211
Decreasing Resources	p. 222
Modern Stone Age Economics	p. 227
Frank Stevens, Knap-in Entrepreneur	p. 228
A Trip to Quartzite	p. 230
Market Knapping	p. 235
Art Knapping	p. 237
Dale Cannon and Stone Knives	p. 241
Knappers, Collectors, Archaeologists: Ethics and Conflicts	p. 249
Replicas, Fakes, and Art	p. 250
Fakes, Replicas, and Ethics	p. 251
Murmurings at the Knap-in	p. 251
Woody's Dreams and Knappers' Nightmares	p. 253
Fakes and Archaeology	p. 262
Counting Knappers and Points	p. 263
Markets, Again	p. 267
The World of Collecting	p. 269
Authentication	p. 275
Archaeological Impacts of Modern Knapping: Collections	p. 279
The Creation and Destruction of Sites	p. 282
Epilogue: Sin and Society	p. 284
Silicon and Society	p. 289
Silicon Connections	p. 290
Forming and Breaking	p. 297
The Future	p. 301
Knapper Mail Survey Questionnaire	p. 309
Fall 1996 Fort Osage Knap-in Registration	p. 314
New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1994	p. 316
New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1996	p. 318
Bibliography	p. 320
Notes	p. 345
Index	p. 347
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