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  • I got interested in flintknapping about the same time I got interested in primitive archery.

    April 2007 2007

  • I got interested in flintknapping about the same time I got interested in primitive archery.

    Catching up, again 2007

  • Making movies, writing screen plays, writing poetry, children's narratives, flintknapping, and did I say guns?

    Carol Jones: The Ken Jones Honorary Yard Sale, Taxes, and Apache Lore Carol Jones 2010

  • Planned events include "bronze-age baking", milking, flintknapping, badger watching and safaris.

    The 10 best campsites for views 2011

  • Making movies, writing screen plays, writing poetry, children's narratives, flintknapping, and did I say guns?

    Carol Jones: The Ken Jones Honorary Yard Sale, Taxes, and Apache Lore Carol Jones 2010

  • I know that at one time I was the only woman on the mailing list for folks in Georgia who were interested in flintknapping.

    April 2007 2007

  • There's a pretty big overlap between the flintknapping crowd and the atlatl throwing crowd.

    April 2007 2007

  • If I tried flintknapping, I feel certain I'd lop off the whole point.

    Catching up, again 2007

  • There's a pretty big overlap between the flintknapping crowd and the atlatl throwing crowd.

    Catching up, again 2007

  • I know that at one time I was the only woman on the mailing list for folks in Georgia who were interested in flintknapping.

    Catching up, again 2007

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  • Considered the world’s oldest profession, flintknapping dates back more than 2 million years ago when rocks were broken down into sharp tools and arrowheads.

    June 11, 2011

  • What a slippery sleeper of a profession!

    June 11, 2011

  • I first read this as "nitflapping" and I wondered what those nits were up to now.

    June 18, 2011