EXARC Journal (Aug 2015)
Knapping Skill Assessment
Abstract
This article is derived from a presentation made by the senior author at the OpenArch Conference "Working with stones in European Pre- and Proto-history in theory and in practice" organised by the Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (DE), 23-27 September, 2013 (See Figure 1). It chronicles aspects and some results of a long-term study of skill acquisition in stone knapping, Learning to be Human, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, UK.