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Learn how to recreate exact replicas of Chalcolithic knives and Charavines knives with Bernard Ginelli
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301: Atlatl shooting during a knapping class session. Here a student aiming at a 20 meters target
302: Bifaces, large blades, blade cores, scrapers, laurel leaves, arrowheads. Made by Bernard Ginelli(Laurel leaves and blades) and his students during a knapping class session
303: The workshop floor after a knapping class day of work... Poor janitor !
304: Large solutrean laurel leaf preform broken at early stage. Note the typical diagonal break due to a bad holding during percussion
305: Large solutrean laurel leaf preform broken at early stage. Note the typical diagonal break due to a bad holding during percussion
306: 3 mousterian biface replicas and 1 pressure flaked arrow point. Made by a student during a knapping-class
307: Acheulean biface, looking unfinished it probably is a preform. A rough one ! Stray find. Private collection.
308: Acheulean biface, looking unfinished it probably is a preform. A rough one ! Stray find. Private collection.
309: Heat-treated (note the shiny and greasy aspect) pressure flaked flake. Once the peduncle is made it will turn into a nice arrowhead
310: Replica of the 'Lady with hood', nickname of the Brassempouy Venus, made by Bernard Ginelli in a reindeer antler. The original (only 4cm high) was made with mammoth ivory and is visible in the Saint Germain En Laye Museum (France)
311: Large solutrean laurel leaf knapped by Bernard. With its 34 cm long, 8 cm wide and only 1.2 cm thick it is a superb one.
312: Blades coming from a livre de beurre core. The four blades to the right have been pressure flaked and shaped to become Charavines knives replicas. The last bears the typical wooden pommel, glued with birch tar.
313: Levallois core: refitting of the two typical flakes that create the ridges for the preferred flake (the missing flake on the picture): a Levallois point. Seen from the percussion points
314: Levallois core: refitting of the two typical flakes that create the ridges for the preferred flake (here missing): a Levallois point. Side view
315: Levallois core: refitting of the two typical flakes that create the ridges for the preferred flake (here missing): a Levallois point. Top view
316: Block of red obsidian. from its flakes, one can easily make pressure flaked arrowhrads or knife blades.
317: Hammerstones (the webmaster's). The larger ones are used for spalling and breaking big blocks. The small quartzites and the sandstone (grès) ones are used as abraders
318: Small laurel leaf knapped by Bernard Ginelli. Note the tiny crystal pocket located in the larger part: a quite tricky to overcome area !
319: Cjalcolithic arrowhead with peduncle and wings. Flaked with copper pressure flaker by Bernard Ginelli
320: Unfinished armorican (chalcolithic) arrow point. The long peduncle and wings are typical of this kind of point... but thay are incredibly fragile, thus tricky to achieve.
321: Flint knives preforms. Bernard Ginelli knaps laurel leaves shaped preforms, fully ground them before presure flaking them with a copper flaker. Note the nice colors of the concentric Bergerac flint
322: Debitage with a deer or reindeer punch. Indirect percussion helps precisely controlling the point of impact and set it in tricky areas.
323: Concentric flint, typical of the Bergerac area (France). The veins are created by different concentrations of chemical elements. Redish tint is due to iron oxyds
324: Concentric flint, typical of the Bergerac area (France). The veins are created by different concentrations of chemical elements. Redish tint is due to iron oxyds
325: Concentric flint, typical of the Bergerac area (France). The veins are made by the differences in concentration of chemical elements. Redish tint is due to iron oxyds.