Channel: Primitive Pathways

Category: Entertainment

Description: primitivepathways.com Learn how to make a stone knife like the Northern Paiute and other prehistoric Great Basin peoples made and used. This stone knife is useful for a variety of tasks, including light camp cutting, harvesting vegetable foods, and butchering big game animals. This flintknapping video will show how to deal with problems that stone can present. In this video Billy Berger crafts a useful tool from fine grained basalt. These same techniques can be applied to glass, obsidian, flint, agate, or any other knappable stone.