Adult Flintknapping Workshop
Tue 02 Aug
|Creswell Crags Museum
Discover the art of the oldest craft in the world: Flintknapping. How did prehistoric people make tools to survive the Stone Age?


Time & Location
02 Aug 2022, 09:00 – 03 Aug 2022, 16:00
Creswell Crags Museum, Crags Rd, Creswell, Worksop S80 3LH, UK
About
Discover the art of the oldest craft in the world: Flintknapping. How did our earliest ancestors make tools to survive the Stone Age?
Find out with experimental archaeologist James Dilley who will guide you through the process of making your flint tools to take home at the end. The oldest flint tools found in Britain date to around 1 million years ago, the latest around 3000 years ago so you will have the chance to try your hand at a process used for 99.7% of human presence in Britain!
The aim of the day will be for attendees to go home with a variety of different stone tools they have made, new flintknapping skills and a new appreciation for prehistoric technology.
Dr James Dilley is an archaeologist and craftsman who specialises in prehistoric technologies with over 18 years of experience. James has worked with museums and heritage centres around the…