Experimental

During the summer of 2019, I conducted a raw material survey to ground truth previous work that had identified various flint outcrops in the region as the sources for flint at Kharaneh IV and to collect said flint for experimental flintknapping. With a small team, we collected over 300lbs of flint and worked to reproduce the stone tool technologies while in Jordan. Both high and low quality flint was brought back to Berkeley for future experimentation with novice flintknappers. This experiment is designed to help identify skilled vs unskilled flintknappers in the archaeological record.