Spalling Onondaga Chert - Part 1 of 3
Channel: Prehistoric Living
Date: 05/02/2019

Working down a raw block of Onondaga chert. Tried to get some spalling flakes but they all broke up on me, lots of freeze cracks and fractures in this stuff, because I just collected it from the beach and didn't have enough time to find better/bigger stuff. I talk too much in this one, and work too slowly, but it's a good introduction I think. In the next ones I'm just gonna shut up and knap.

Check out the other videos in the series:
Collecting Onondaga Chert from the Source - https://youtu.be/D2SXGjrGQKE
Spalling Onondaga Chert - Part 2 of 3 - https://youtu.be/k32pTSK_x7E
Spalling Onondaga Chert - Part 3 of 3 - https://youtu.be/BV1KxTSzIeY