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 Stone Tool Prehistory The New World Recent ?Stone Age? People Modern Knapping Further Reading Other Resources: Finding Other Knappers 4. Raw Materials and Ethical Issues Stone Quality Stone Materials Heat Treating Obtaining 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 American Southwest Pressure-Flaking Problems Patterned Pressure Flaking and Ground Preforms 8.

Soft-Hammer Percussion and Bifaces Definitions Tools Beginning Soft-Hammer Principles and Results Biface-Thinning Flakes Fracture Theories Platforms Biface Stages Knapping Strategy and Other Considerations Example: A Basic Biface Biface Problems: Prehistoric Mistakes Summary 9. Blades, Fluting, and Punches Blades Platforms Holding Punches The Blow Fluting Example: Fluted Point 10. Using Stone Tools and Experiments with Prehistoric Technology Stone Versus Steel Edges and Cutting Making a Projectile Foreshaft Going On Experimentation in Modern Archaeology Atlatls Design Theory Archaeological Experiments--Controlled or Naturalistic Conclusions 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 Stone Tools and People Who Made Stone Tools Children, Learning, and Skill Arrowheads and Modern Identity Conclusions Acknowledgments References Index.