American Flintknappers : Stone Age Art in the Age of Computers.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Coming to the Knap-in -- The Knap-in Ethos -- Sources of Information -- The Knap-in at Fort Osage -- 2. Making Stone Tools: The World's Oldest Craft -- The Processes of Flintknapping -- Tools and the Knapper's Ethos -- 3. From Fakes and Experiments to Knap-ins: The Roots of Modern Flintknapping -- Charlie Shewey -- Early Archaeologists and Fakers -- Native Knappers -- Mack Tussinger and the Oklahoma Eccentrics -- Daniel, Howe, and Others -- McCormick the Folsom Fluter -- Bryon Rinehart and Grey Ghosts -- Richard Warren-Scale Work and Lap Knapping -- Patterns in the Early Modern Knappers -- Halvor Skavlem and the Hobby Knapper -- Archaeology and Replication -- Knapping Newsletters -- The First Knap-ins -- Waldorf and The Art of Flintknapping -- Transition to the Current Scene -- The Current Scene -- 4. The Knap-in: People and Organization -- Bob Hunt, Organizer at Fort Osage -- George Eklund, Commercial Knapper -- Jim Regan, Copper Toolsmith -- Gene Stapleton, Dealing in Stone -- Percy Atkinson: Gourds, Axes, and Philosophy -- D. C. and Val Waldorf, Knap-in Professionals -- Ingrid Jones, Knapper Spouse -- Knapper Demography -- A Continent of Knap-ins -- Mid-West Flintknappers' Convention, June 1993 -- Pine City Knap-in -- Evergreen Lake Knap-in, July 1996 -- Genesee Valley Flint Knappers Association Knap-in, August 1996 -- Flint Ridge Knap-in, August 1996 -- Knap-in Generalities -- 5. Knappers at the Knap-in -- Culture and Community of Practice -- Performance -- Learning to Knap -- Learning the Ethos -- Politics, Gender, and Ethnicity -- Expressions of Identity -- The Chipping Keeps You Going: Why Knappers Knap -- 6. Status and Stones -- The Knap-in as Egalitarian Event -- Ooga-Booga, a Ritual of Inclusion -- Status and Competition in Knapping.

Talking with Stone: Ritual Exchanges and the Expression of Status -- 7. Art, Craft, or Reproduction: Knapper Esthetics -- Stone Tools as Art and Folk Art -- Two Knappers, Two Attitudes -- The Ideal Point: Common Esthetic Rules -- The Rules in Action: Knapping Contests -- Imitation as Esthetic Goal -- Point Types and Artistic Choices -- Replicas and the Art of Knapping -- 8. Can't Never Have Too Much Flint: The Lore of Stone -- The Mystique of Stone -- The Qualities of Stone -- The Quest for Stone -- Decreasing Resources -- 9. Modern Stone Age Economics -- Frank Stevens, Knap-in Entrepreneur -- A Trip to Quartzite -- Market Knapping -- Art Knapping -- Dale Cannon and Stone Knives -- 10. Knappers, Collectors, Archaeologists: Ethics and Conflicts -- Replicas, Fakes, and Art -- Fakes, Replicas, and Ethics -- Murmurings at the Knap-in -- Woody's Dreams and Knappers' Nightmares -- Fakes and Archaeology -- Counting Knappers and Points -- Markets, Again -- The World of Collecting -- Authentication -- Archaeological Impacts of Modern Knapping: Collections -- The Creation and Destruction of Sites -- Epilogue: Sin and Society -- 11. Silicon and Society -- Silicon Connections -- Forming and Breaking -- The Future -- Appendix A. Knapper Mail Survey Questionnaire -- Appendix B. Fall 1966 Fort Osage Knap-in Registration -- Appendix C. New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1994 -- Appendix D. New York Knap-in Contest Rules, 1996 -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.

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