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Neolithic knives DVD

Prehistory mythical flint knives secrets unveiled.

Learn how to recreate exact replicas of Chalcolithic knives and Charavines knives with Bernard Ginelli

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Flintknapping Volume 1 DVD

Bernard Ginelli explains, step by step how to knap the following tools:

- Biface
- Dihedral burin
- Livre de beurre blade core
- Laurel leaf

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In these videos, Bernard Ginelli (the professionnal) or Cayoo (the amateur) make flint or bone tools and try to recreate artefacts in the same way and with the same techniques as our ancestors.

The sound and image quality of the first movies is far from being perfect because of the camera used to record them and because of the web encoding process.

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60 available videos

Making flint blade knives

16 videos, 3 new

Categories:
• Blade: [9 videos]
• Handle: [1 videos]
• Gluing: [3 videos]

Flintknapping

28 videos, 1 new

Categories:
• Hammerstone: [5 videos]
• Soft hammer: [20 videos]
• Pressure flaking: [3 videos]

Atlat & neolithic bow shooting

6 videos, no new

Bone or antler work

6 videos, no new

Categories:
• Needles: [3 videos]
• Harpoons: [3 videos]

Miscellaneous activities

Vidéos activités diverses de la préhistoire

4 videos, no new

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60 videos, 4 new

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Videos about: flint knives

NEWS NEOLITHIC KNIVES DVD: SAMPLE 1

1		In a few words: Sample from the "Neolithic knives" DVD. The carved wooden handle has just been glued with tar to the blade... It's now time to make the willow windings which will also be glued with tar.
Duration: 02:13 Displays: 5156

NEWS NEOLITHIC KNIVES DVD: SAMPLE 2

2		In a few words: Sample from the ""Neolithic knives"" DVD. The retouch of the blade is almost complete, but its base needs to be carved for hafting purposes. This achieved, a deer antler can be carved to serve as a handle...
Duration: 02:22 Displays: 4419

NEWS NEOLITHIC KNIVES DVD: SAMPLE 3

3		In a few words: Sample from the "Neolithic knives" DVD. This animation shows one amongst the several ways to obtain vegetal tar. In its principle, it is very similar to the way charcoal is made.
Duration: 01:20 Displays: 2917

KNAPPING THE BLADE PREFORM

4		In a few words: I knap the blades preforms of my knives from a flint spall. A whole serie of bifacial retouches with a hammerstone then an antler will create the first stage of a preform that will later be thinned... in the next video.
Duration: 12:36 Displays: 11549

FINISHED BLADE PREFORM

5		In a few words: Now the blade preform is finished, but there are still many imperfections on it. It will be difficult to get nice long and regular pressure flakes out of such a rough preform. This is the reason why I fully polish the preform: flake over grinding will then be much more efficient because the surfaces will be perfectly convex.
Duration: 01:11 Displays: 5676

POLISHING THE BLADE ON SANDSTONE

6		In a few words: I crush small flint flakes on a big sandstone rock. Then I add water so as to obtain a ""grinding soup"" that should increase the efficiency of sandstone. The rest is just a matter of time (mostly)... and muscles ! It took 2 h30 to polish the blade (faces and bevels for pressure platforms on the sides)
Duration: 01:49 Displays: 5333

PRESSURE FLAKING ON FACE 1

7		In a few words: With a copper-rod pressure flaker (chalcolithic period) I retouch by pressure the whole first face of the blade, to create long and parallel scars on it and serrations on the edges. I start with the point, with tiny flakes, that get longer and longer as I proceed toward the base of the blade.
Duration: 04:11 Displays: 6431

PRESSURE FLAKING ON FACE 1 (CONT.)

8		In a few words: The first half of face 1 is now finished, so it's time to pressure flake the opposite edge. This time I start from the base and proceed toward the point untill the surface dosen't show any trace of polishing and is fully retouched. A few tweaks on the edges with a quartzite stone and I'm finished with this face.
Duration: 05:58 Displays: 4239

PRESSURE FLAKING FACE 2

9		In a few words: The same double serie of retouch, flakes and scars, this time on the second face of the blade.... But now you all know how it works, don't you ?
Duration: 06:10 Displays: 4390

BLADE TANG

10		In a few words: Still pressure flaking the blade, I create a tang on the base... This tang and the shoulders will hlp hafting the blade in the handle. I also fine tune the edges because a knife is supposed to be sharp !
Duration: 06:44 Displays: 4571

ABOUT SAWED SLABS

11		In a few words: Is it easier or not to use sawed slabs for making flint blades or points ? In my opinion it isn't. Working on those slabs requires greater efforts than knapping a spall. Flint loves convexity and the surfaces are here flat ! The positive point is that a flint nodule will give more preforms if sawn rather than spalled... but I still prefer knapping a spall with an antler billet.
Duration: 05:34 Displays: 3923

DOES IT CUT ?

12		In a few words: Flint blades micro denticulated edges are extremely efficient for cutting soft materials such as flesh. They actually work like a saw does. Because flint is much harder than common steel, it is important to use such knives on a wooden board so as not to damage your plates. Yummy !
Duration: 01:45 Displays: 7725

MAKING THE HANDLE

13		In a few words: The handle is made out of an antler. First I need to drill a hole in the for the blade tang. Then I have to create two deep cuts on the handle edges so that the shoulders of the blade can rest in them. Hafting of the blade will require a pine-tree pitch & beeswax glue.
Duration: 07:38 Displays: 3225

PREPARING THE GLUE

14		In a few words: The glue I use to haft the blade in the handle if a melted mixture of pine-tree resin and beeswax. Resin makes the glue harder but more fragile while beeswax makes if more flexible, but softer... It's just a matter of compromise.
Duration: 02:33 Displays: 2985

HAFTING AND GLUING THE BLADE

15		In a few words: The boiling glue is poured several times in the handle and the blade is then quickly inserted. Cooling and fixing is a matter of seconds. The blade is now ready to be ligatured with sinew and raw-hide glue.
Duration: 02:44 Displays: 3081

SINEW LIGATURES

16		In a few words: Rabbit-skin strips have boiled for many hours, thus creating a slimy collagene glue. I extract fibers from a tendon, soak them in the glue and wrap them around the blade and the handle. It will then dry for 24 hours. It took more than 4 hours to make this knife, but it definitely was worth it...
Duration: 02:44 Displays: 3593

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