Crafting the Status, Skill, and Identity of Flintknappers
by
Kathryn Weedman Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Lives of Stone Tools gives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern Ethiopia. For the Gamo, their stone tools are alive, and their work in flintknapping is interwoven with status, skill, and the life histories of their stone tools.
Anthropologist Kathryn Weedman Arthur...