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It was easy to knap, or to flake off, pieces into utilitarian shapes and didn’t need to be tempered or treated with heat as some tool stones do.

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By that time, toolmakers were already skilled at knapping.

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Our Paleolithic ancestors learned to knap delicate blades from round stone cobbles, hunt large game and cook their food.

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The course was jointly led by Ojibwe elders, who taught him how to knap flint, tan hides and build wigwams.

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It was there that he learned flint knapping, the shaping of stone to make tools.

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