1. Introduction Using This Book; Learning to Knap 2. Flintknapping: Basic Principles Flintknapping; Conchoidal Fracture; Properties of Material; Flakes and Cores 3. A Brief History of Flintknapping Prehistory of Stone Tools; Recent "Stone-Age" People; Modern Knapping; Further Readings; Other Resources: Finding Other Knappers 4. Raw Materials Stone Quality; Stone Materials; Heat-Treating; Collecting Material: Ethical and Practical Considerations 5. Safety Proper Technique; Eyes; Hands; Other Body Parts; Lungs; Waste Disposal; Benefits 6. Hard-Hammer Percussion Material and Equipment; Percussion-Flaking Principles: An Experiment; Percussion Flaking; Platforms; The Face of the Core; Terminations; Curvature; Starting a Core; Summary: Nine Essentials; Examples 7. Pressure Flaking Tools : Raw Material; First Principles; Working Position; Beginning; Platform Preparation; Thinning; Notching; Other Pressure-Flaking Techniques; Summary: Six Essentials; Application: Small Triangular Points from the Southwest; Pressure-Flaking Problems; Patterned Pressure Flaking 8.

Soft-Hammer Percussion and Bifaces Definitions; Tools; Beginning; Soft-Hammer Principles and Results; Biface Thinning Flakes; Fracture Theories; The Blow Platforms; Biface Stages; Knapping Strategy and Other Considerations; Example: A Basic Biface; Biface Problems: Prehistoric Mistakes; Summary 9. Blades and Fluting Blades; Platforms; Holding; Punches; The Blow; Fluting; Example: Fluted Point 10. Using Stone Tools Stone vs. Steel; Edges and Cutting; Making a Projectile Foreshaft; Going On 11. Archaeological Analysis of Stone Tools Typology; Stone Tool Types and Change through Time; What People Did with Stones; Sources of Variation: Why Stone Tools Are Not All Alike; Analyzing Stone Tool Materials; Technology and What It Tells Us; Figuring Out Function; Questions of Style; Conclusions Appendix: Resources for Knappers; References; Index.