Videos
Hours of demonstrations filmed at the workshop: Bernard Ginelli at work, gesture by gesture. These videos were shot between 2007 and 2009; they have been restored here in a format modern browsers can play.
The Chalcolithic knife, step by step
The thirteen full sequences of the reduction process shown in pictures in Flintknapping.
1. Knapping the preform
2. Knapping the preform (continued)
3. Polishing
4. Pressure flaking, side 1
5. Pressure flaking, side 1 (continued)
6. Pressure flaking, side 2
7. Knapping the tang
8. Shaping the handle
9. Fitting the handle plates
10. Resin gluing
11. Grinding the handle
12. Sinew ligatures
13. Does it actually cut?
Bifaces & Levallois reduction
Mousterian biface
Mousterian biface (variant)
Levallois preparation
Levallois in a minute
Levallois core reassembly
Levallois point on a block
Mousterian side-scraper
Preparing the striking platform
Preparing the platform edge
Flake removal
Blade reduction & cores
Blade reduction course
Blade core
Managing the blades
The "livre de beurre" core
Recurrent blade reduction from a large core, known in French as a "butter loaf" core.