LITHICS -- An American Heritage.An acquired mastery of the natural environment and material resources is clearly demonstrated by high quality hunting tools and projectile points ... the artifacts and relics of cultures which inhabited much of the American continents for thousands of years. This book looks at some of those natural resources and examines how native cultures used them to provide their tools and hunting weapons. Illustrated with numerous ancient relics. It shows examples of the stone and rock resources which were put to use in making those artifacts, and discusses source locations for useful stone."LITHICS An American Heritage" also presents examples of modern made stone hunting tool and weapon reproductions made using materials and methods employed by those ancient cultures.
"OO" Ranch Home For Thousands Of Years ... explores the evidence of native cultures which called this spot of land in eastern Oregon "home" over the past 12,000 years. Geography created a well-watered valley in the midst of an often hot, dry region. Ever since the end of the "Ice Age", flocks of migrating waterfowl and wandering herds of grazing beasts gathered here. This drew ancient human groups to this rich hunting ground, intent on utilizing the wealth of the land to feed their families. Their hunting weapons and food processing tools show us how much they valued this region as a vast natural resource which was so important to their life ways for many generations. "OO" Ranch Home For Thousands Of Years ... features examples of extraordinary stone artifacts found on the lands of the ranch, now a part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. 47 pages, full color.
Complete instructions on how to make a stone arrowhead or projectile point ... just like the ancient peoples from stone age cultures. With lots of photographic examples and illustrations of every step along the way. From stone chip to finished arrow point.Also available as an e-book for tablet readers ... exclusively from the Kindle Direct publishing service at Amazon.com
You will learn the secrets to build a solid foundation in the essential aspects of the ancient "Flint Knapping" craft. This first volume is a combined set from the 24-lesson correspondence course "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" which brings you Lessons #1 through #8.Each lesson is fully illustrated, with easy to understand directions about an important aspect of creating tools and hunting weapons from stone.Richly photographed, with lots of examples, these lessons give you the methods and techniques.How much you accomplish with it all is up to you. Prepare, practice and produce Here is a list of topics prepared for the first set of 8 lessons in the complete 24 lesson series from "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" --Mastering The Stone--Hammer Stone Percussion--Soft Hammer Percussion--Spalls Of Stone--Chips Off The Old Block--Heat Treatment--Percussion Cores--Chips & BladesVolume 2 will present Lessons #9 through #16.Volume 3 will present Lessons #17 through #24.Volume 4 will present Bonus Lessons #1 through #4.Each lesson from "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" is designed to introduce flint knapping methods and ideas in an additive order so you will learn and use them progressively to begin making arrowheads for yourself, with increasing skill and confidence as you learn and practice.24 comprehensive steps -- your fast track to making arrowheads yourself."FLINT KNAPPING 20.12".106 pages.
You will learn the secrets to build a solid foundation in the essential aspects of the ancient "Flint Knapping" craft. This second volume is a combined set from the 24-lesson correspondence course "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" which brings you Lessons #9 through #16.Each lesson is fully illustrated, with easy to understand directions about an important aspect of creating tools and hunting weapons from stone.Richly photographed, with lots of examples, these lessons give you the methods and techniques.How much you accomplish with it all is up to you. Prepare, practice and produce Here is a list of topics prepared for the second set of 8 lessons in the complete 24 lesson series from "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" --Indirect Percussion--Pressure Flaking--Edge Preparation--Platform Preparation--Perfecting A Practice Piece--Percussion Preforms--Preforms & Slabs -- Ready To Finish--Powerful Pressure FlakingVolume 1 presented Lessons #1 through #8.Volume 3 will present Lessons #17 through #24.Volume 4 will present Bonus Lessons #1 through #4.Each lesson from "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" is designed to introduce flint knapping methods and ideas in an additive order so you will learn and use them progressively to begin making arrowheads for yourself, with increasing skill and confidence as you learn and practice.24 comprehensive steps -- your fast track to making arrowheads yourself."FLINT KNAPPING 20.12".126 pages.
You will learn the secrets to build a solid foundation in the essential aspects of the ancient "Flint Knapping" craft. This fourth volume is a combined set from the 24-lesson correspondence course "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" which brings you the Bonus Lessons #1 through #4.Each lesson is fully illustrated, with easy to understand directions about an important aspect of creating tools and hunting weapons from stone.Richly photographed, with lots of examples, these lessons give you the methods and techniques.How much you accomplish with it all is up to you. Prepare, practice and produce Here is a list of topics prepared for the fourth set, the Bonus Lessons after the complete 24 lesson series from "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" --Necessity -- Mother Of Invention--Clovis & Agate Basin -- Paleo Period--Ishi Arrow Points -- End Of The Stone Age--Folsom & Cumberland -- Indirect PercussionVolume 3 presented Lessons #1 through #8.Volume 2 presented Lessons #9 through #16.Volume 3 presented Lessons #17 through #24.Each lesson from "FLINT KNAPPING 20.12" is designed to introduce flint knapping methods and ideas in an additive order so you will learn and use them progressively to begin making arrowheads for yourself, with increasing skill and confidence as you learn and practice.24 comprehensive steps -- your fast track to making arrowheads yourself."FLINT KNAPPING 20.12".74 pages.
Dozens Of Far West ARROWHEADS.For New Arrowhead Collectors, Of All Ages ... Especially Younger Folks.How can you identify the arrowheads which you find? How did the ancient peoples make them? Can we know how old an arrowhead is? What are some engaging ways to display & share your arrowhead collection?This field-reference-sized handbook provides detailed photographs of several dozen arrowhead types which are quite commonly found in the far western U.S. states: California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Utah.Take it along on your outdoor and wilderness travels to help you make field identifications on those special occasions when you discover an ancient arrowhead.
HOLLEY BLUE AGATE.Some things in this world just have to be seen once to be appreciated. Holley Blue Agateis one of those special things.Holley Blue Agate is also one of those things which can speak for itself ... or in this case, write for itself. Words pale into insignificance compared to the color and glow of thisnatural stone.I have followed one standard practice which has been used for generations to give youan idea of the potential beauty of Holley Blue Agate: lapidary artists will often wetdifferent stones and rocks with water ... to give a better visual approximation of what thestone could look like if it is ground smooth and polished. The wet stone reveals manydetails of the colors which can tend to be hidden in the dry condition. So, I havepresented several of the different samples shown in this collection in their dry conditionand then in a water-wetted condition, with the same lighting and approximate position.No other manipulation of the images has been performed.Enjoy.And when the occasion arises, take the opportunity to add a few raw or polishedpieces of Holley Blue Agate to your personal rock and gem collection
Making Your First "CLOVIS" Spear Point.A photo-illustrated introduction to making flint "Clovis" style spear and lance points ... the hunting weapon used by pioneering human populations in North America to hunt mammoths, mastodons and other mega fauna at the end of the Ice Age. For those interested in flint knapping and learning how these special stone hunting weapons were made long ago. Here's to your first "Clovis" spear point.48 pages.
The arrowhead collector's Annual Edition of the e-magazine "ARROWHEAD Collecting On The Web". A combined Volumes V & VI, beginning with the September 2013 re-design and re-launch of the e-magazine, including the rest of 2013 and all twelve of the 2014 monthly editions. 256 pages.
Where can you learn to make your own "Clovis" style stone spear points? In the "PaleoPoints Discovery Club" ... here are our 10 weekly reports: "Progress?"Whether brand new or veteran, almost every flint knapper whom I know is eager to try his hand at making "Clovis" points ... often beginning before learning all the necessary skills.Why is this such a universal objective?Very few other "Stone Age" artifacts have captured the sustained interest of "Space Age" wilderness and primitive skills craftsmen to the extent which we see enjoyed by ancient "Clovis" spear points.The "PaleoPoints Discovery Club" specializes in learning, understanding and practicing the flint knapping skills used by the "Clovis" culture to produce these uniquely styled projectile points ... one of the most recognizable and influential styles of hunting weapon handed down from that pioneering population who explored all of North America at the end of the most recent "Ice Age".This book compiles the several "Progress?" newsletters, about making your own "Clovis" style spear points, as provided to subscribers of the "PaleoPoints Discovery Club".It also presents a thorough series of photographs, throughout the book, made to illustrate the steps in the making of a "Clovis" style spear point. This spear point was made on May 23, 2015, by the author, F. Scott Crawford, from a spall of Arkansas Novaculite, for one of the members of the "PaleoPoints Discovery Club"."Are You Making Progress Now?"Breaking Stone To Make Your Own "CLOVIS" Style Spear Points ... Here's How You Can Make This Much Progress ... Maybe More.120 pages, full color, photographically illustrated.
Color Me HawaiiA Tropical Coloring Book For Adventurous Souls Who Want To See Beyond The Horizon.Surfs up Sunsets are dramatically colorful. Palms are swaying in the island winds. Crashing surf, with board riders on the waves and drifting butterflies on the breeze ... all inhabit the islands of our dreams. Use your favorite coloring inks or coloring pencils to enjoy many relaxing hours of creating your own idyllic, tropical island scenes.Color Me Hawaii. Over 25 surf and palm scenes from the endless summer of the islands. 56 pages.
"Lepidoptera I: Portraits Of My Colorful Flying Friends."A Coloring Book Celebrating Our Natural World.This is Volume I of my "Lepidoptera" coloring books.This volume presents several portraits of "Lepidoptera" (butterflies and moths) using line drawings which I digitally adapted from an astonishing series of scientific illustrations by Herman Strecker, published from 1872 through 1878. These images were reproduced from a set of the original documents, drawn and colored from life, for one of his subscribers. The set is now in the Smithsonian Library.There are also several modern photographs of additional butterfly specimens which have been digitally drawn for your coloring activity. These include a wonderful Old World Swallowtail and the beautiful Monarch butterfly.Plus, this coloring book provides two coloring pages for each guiding line illustration, so you can color in the natural colors from the specimens and photographs, and then you also have an extra page so you can try your hand at whatever color combinations strike your fancy."Stay in the lines" except when you have to go outside the lines to satisfy your artistic instincts and expand your horizons.Relax. Concentrate. Use your feelings. Enjoy your creative impulses. Lift your spirits. Take flight with your fantasy. Soar above it all.Let's celebrate your own colorful world. Enjoy these portraits of your colorful flying friends 46 pages. A coloring book celebrating our natural world."Lepidoptera I: Portraits Of My Colorful Flying Friends."
"Lepidoptera II: Portraits Of My Colorful Flying Friends." A Coloring Book Celebrating Our Natural World. This is Volume II of my "Lepidoptera" coloring books. This volume presents a series of recent watercolor style illustrations, two each for 14 different butterflies and moths, adapted to make line art which you can fill in with color. The first illustration is complete, and the second is partially completed, so you can see the sequence of work in creating the illustrations and get a better idea of the coloring process for the examples.These watercolor illustrations show a selection of butterflies and moths which matches up very closely to many of those butterfly and moth specimens which were in my personal butterfly collection assembled as a teenager in Oregon and Florida. Plus, this coloring book provides two coloring pages for each guiding line illustration, so you can color in the natural colors from the specimens and photographs, and then you also have an extra page so you can try your hand at whatever color combinations strike your fancy. "Stay in the lines" except when you have to go outside the lines to satisfy your artistic instincts and expand your horizons. Relax. Concentrate. Use your feelings. Enjoy your creative impulses. Lift your spirits. Take flight with your fantasy. Soar above it all. Let's celebrate your own colorful world. Enjoy these portraits of your colorful flying friends 64 pages. A coloring book celebrating our natural world. "Lepidoptera II: Portraits Of My Colorful Flying Friends."
"DEBITAGE" Bits & Pieces ... Remnants Left Behind ... By & For Flint Knappers.That's what debitage was ... and that's what "DEBITAGE" is. Tidbits of flint knapping knowledge and skills compiled for those curious folks who want to know how to make stone projectile points ... arrowheads ... for themselves.Now you can enjoy this compilation of a series of "DEBITAGE" newsletters with key sequences of specific steps and processes in flint knapping: --Soft Hammer Percussion--Cores & Blade Making by Percussion--Chunks & Spalls for Knapping--Chips to Points for Pressure Work--A Wheel of Points Finished Work--Edge Preparation for Percussion--Isolated Platforms for Percussion--Power Pressure Flaking for Results--Serrating An Edge for Impact--Notching for Attaching to Shafts--Percussion Fluting for Big Game.And more ... with lots of resources, practice projects, and specialized information based on many years of experience and study."DEBITAGE" Bits & Pieces ... Remnants Left Behind ... By & For Flint Knappers.54 pages, full color, photo illustrated throughout.
BREAK ROCK Making Stone Arrowheads For Fun & Challenge 36 Projectile Points You Can Make Which Span 2,000 Years Of History. These stone arrowheads were truly the "pointy end" of the stick when it came to hunting weapons used by the native peoples of North America before Columbus and the Europeans introduced them to iron and other metals. When you learn to "knap flint" ... to make arrowheads from stone as it has been done over the millennia of human history ... these 36 projectile points represent some of the finest examples of stone age craftsmanship and inventiveness. It takes patience and practice to make them. And it can be a very satisfying experience to produce an arrow point from stone ... first imagining it in your mind when you pick up a piece of rock ... then going through the steps to break the rock and form the hunting weapon you have imagined. Holding it in your hand gives you a connection to all the ancient peoples who have gone before us. And it gives you a connection to the natural world which we so often are missing in this age of computers and virtual reality. This is truly reality. A stone. Shaped by you to approximate the idea you had in mind. Sometimes you will break the point before it is finished. Then you simply start again. The stone is not the master. You are. And, so you try again. Shaping the stone to your will. Here, in this book, are 36 different ancient arrowhead styles which you can reproduce today. These are the patterns to study. Guides to watch. Goals to pursue. You can work on making your own arrow points to follow the pattern. Then, after you try as many as you want, all or some, you may want to create your own style and work on refining your own ideas and methods. That is the beauty of flint knapping. Once you learn the processes, you have the skills and tools to create your own art in stone. Good luck, and good knapping. 104 pages. Full color photographs and instructions. 36 different projectile points originally created for use as arrowheads by North American cultural groups all across the continent.
