Wow! Alison Fisk on Bluesky today showing "An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!"

That's some serious dedication to the art of the craft. They wanted that shell to be in the hand axe. Of that I have no doubt.

https://bsky.app/profile/alisonfisk.bsky.social/post/3lyppyz3pu22x

#Archaeology #Knapping

A recent comm I had the pleasure to draw for @harpybella.bsky.social ! Super cool character design, mesoamerican inspired things are so beautiful :>
timelapse @ my teleg art channel 

#furry #anthro #oc #sfwartwork #digitalart #krita #avian #harpyeagle #eagle #fursona #fantasy #rpg #dnd #knapping

So, apparently it is possible to make effective shuriken out of obsidian. Apparently Dark Sun was right when it included chatkcha as a thri-kreen cultural weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eQaBNEIE2Bw

#Shuriken #DarkSun #ThriKreen #Chatkcha #Knapping #NinjaStars

During the various #Covid lockdowns to hit #China when I lived there, I took up a new hobby: creating lithic tools, drawing on techniques used thousands of years ago during the Stone Age. Here are some of my recent creations — points, scrappers, a hand axe — made using the #knapping and #pressureflaking techniques.

#arrowhead #stoneage #lithic #lithics #history #DIY

#IceAge #Knife // A *very* quick #demo #making Upper #Palaeolithic #blades

#flintknapping #knapping #stoneage #stonetools #ancientskills #craft #archaeology #experimentalarchaeology #experientialarchaeology #archaeologist

I guess this is where I put a hashtag-laden intro post, huh? all right, here we go.

I live in #Berkeley with a perfect #cat. I like making stuff; I'm learning #woodworking and #knapping, and have some experience with #sewing and #crochet and #gamedev. I studied #linguistics in college and it just made me more descriptivist. haven't done much #singing or #writing recently but I miss em. I casually watch #birds (literal), #sjsharks (#hockey) and #aew.