Resources
A selection of books for going further into flintknapping and prehistoric tools.
Outils préhistoriques : du galet taillé au bistouri d'obsidienne
Jean-Luc Piel-Desruisseaux, Dunod, 300 pages. ISBN 2-10-005806-1 (French).
One of the few books devoted to prehistoric tools and the techniques used to make them. Needles, axes, points, scrapers: all covered in detail, richly illustrated and referenced. Suited to both the amateur and the budding lithics specialist.
Technologie de la pierre taillée
M.-L. Inizan, M. Reduron, H. Roche, J. Tixier, CREP/CNRS, 200 pages. ISBN 2-903516-04-9 (French).
Less "general audience" than the previous title, but just as fascinating for the amateur knapper: covering everything from the various techniques to drawing conventions. A wealth of information, with a multilingual glossary.
Types d'outils lithiques du Paléolithique supérieur en Europe
Pierre-Yves Demars, Pierre Laurent, CNRS, 178 pages. ISBN 2-271-05833-3 (French).
A reference book for knappers who want to reproduce tools faithful to archaeological originals. Numerous drawings of tools, with the distinctive features of each type.
The Art of Flintknapping
D.C. Waldorf, Mound Builder Books, 80 pages. ISBN 0-943917-01-8.
The only book we know of that genuinely explains, with real teaching intent, the techniques of flintknapping. The bedside book of a whole generation of knappers in the United States.
DC Waldorf Guide to the Flint Daggers
D.C. Waldorf, Mound Builder Books, 155 pages.
The typological features of the six types of Scandinavian daggers, clearly detailed and illustrated with numerous drawings and photos of originals. The reduction sequence for type III and the legendary type IV daggers is also covered.