Catherine Evans Whitener Workshop Series: Flintknapping

$85 - limited to 8 participants | REGISTER HERE

The Bandy Heritage Center, Creative Arts Guild, and Prater’s Mill Foundation are proud to partner with Andrew Lee of The Primitive Arts LLC to present a Flintknapping Workshop! Many people are familiar with stone artifacts such as arrowheads created by traditional indigenous cultures in ancient Northwest Georgia and around the world. The flintknapping workshop will provide students with the opportunity to participate in an ancient human tradition by gaining hands-on experience creating stone projectile points.

This class is broken into a morning session and an afternoon session, six hours of instruction total. Each student will be given a large piece of stone and, using a smooth cobble as a hammerstone, shown how to remove a “flake”, or small piece. Next, they will be given a pressure flaker tool and instructed how to thin and shape their flakes into a finished arrowhead. Each student will have the opportunity to create several projectile points, and they will take home their finished pieces and the pressure flaker, as well as several additional flakes to complete on their own. Safety equipment such as gloves and eye protection will be provided. This class is suitable for ages thirteen and up; students under eighteen must have an accompanying adult present at all times. No prior knowledge of or experience with flintknapping is necessary.