Handaxe shaping by expert knapper - Video record

Knapping experiment in the frame of the "MSCA Western European Acheulean Project - WEAP" (748316), made at UCL in March 2019. The aim was to reproduce handaxes, paying special attention to the gestures, number of blows and how knapper turns the blank to produce the instrument.

Bibliographic Details
Author: García Medrano, Paula
Format: conjunto de datos
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC)
Repository:CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:cora.rdr____::98c2ad742193395d0168fc4fab992d9e
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.34810/DATA844
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Arts and Humanities
knapping experiment
Flint
Handaxe
Shaping
Acheulean
Description
Summary:Knapping experiment in the frame of the "MSCA Western European Acheulean Project - WEAP" (748316), made at UCL in March 2019. The aim was to reproduce handaxes, paying special attention to the gestures, number of blows and how knapper turns the blank to produce the instrument.