WGBH/NOVA PODCAST from the Robbins:
Jeff Boudreau of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society (MAS) was filmed at the Robbins Museum on February 10, 2007 as he knapped a fluted point. This Nova Podcast was created as a companion web piece to the Nova broadcast program "America's Stone Age Explorers".
The Nova Crew setting up
Jeff explains how flint knapping is done. The bowl on the table is used to illustrate that knapping a piece of stone is not a whole lot different than when a piece is chipped out of pottery.
The Nova Filming Scene. This session took place in the Barbara Luedtke Memorial Hall at the Robbins Museum in Middleborough.
Some of MAS volunteers are looking on.
Jeff at work.
On to the fine knapping
Jeff shows the finished product.
View this podcast video of Jeff Boudreau at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/.
Make sure to click on the "Making a Stone Age Weapon" feature.
Exhibits at the Robbins Museum include hundreds of stone tools and Native American artifacts from sites all over Massachusetts. Dioramas based on the actual excavation of the Wapanucket Site show daily activities of life in the late Archaic period (3,000 to 5,000 years ago). We hope you visit us. Please see the Robbins Museum page for more information (About The Robbins).
