Flintknapping - Museum of Stone Tools

Samoan stone adze-making workshop

Samoa and American Samoa have a rich natural and cultural heritage reflected in a range of pre-European contact arts and crafts that are both practical and aesthetic. The Rock~Paper~Scissors workshop aimed to revive cultural memory and know-how by researching and documenting particular cultural products, and learning what raw materials and traditional methodologies were used, in…

Archaeological Heritage in Danger from War: The Lower Palaeolithic of Ukraine

Our responsibilities Humans are the only creatures on the planet who can understand their past and consciously determine their global future. Although humans are primates, this does not mean we should return to our roots and behave like our closest relatives. Rather, we should apply our self-knowledge and not destroy the opportunity for us to…

Widi Stone Tool Workshop

The traditional country of the Widi People covers a quarter of a million hectares west of Mackay, Queensland. Widi country includes open sclerophyll woodlands typical for this part of Australia, and large parts of it are covered in silcrete cobbles—a valuable toolmaking stone for the ancestors of the Widi. The European colonisers discovered vast quantities…

Launch of the Museum of Stone Tools

Welcome to the Museum of Stone Tools! The Museum of Stone Tools is an outcome of the Covid 19 lockdown in Australia in 2020. With fieldwork plans stymied, I brainstormed how I could wait out the pandemic in a useful and engaged way. An obvious option was to do something meaningful with the University of…