He said evidence has shown flintknapping was used throughout the Paleolithic Age, about 99 percent of human history, to make stone implements. The things he makes were once the everyday tools of ancient humans. The gregarious white-bearded Moore kept a crowd of interested onlookers enthralled at the Lost City Museum last Saturday as he explained the knowledge and facility he uses to make razor-sharp implements out of materials gleaned from desert locations. “What I’m trying to do as an archeologist is to reconstruct an ancient lifestyle,” Moore said. He was lucky enough at that time to meet the famed Don Crabtree, considered to be the “dean of American flintknappers,” and the art of tool making became his life He found some Colombia River Gem Points while working on his archeology degree at Idaho State University and became hooked on flintknapping. Moore has been passionate about stone tools since the 1960s and 70s. His expert ability has been honed over decades one tiny chip, one small flake, one ancient tool at a time. Moore, who is retired from the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), travels the country nearly six months of the year giving classes, demonstrations and lectures on flintknapping, the art of making arrow heads, projectile points, hand axes and other tools. The Lost City Museum in Overton returned to its living roots last weekend when traveling archeologist Joe Moore led a hands-on demonstration on how to manufacture stone tools from flint and other materials. Retired Nevada Department of Transportation archeologist Joe Moore prepares to use an antler “hammer stone” to knap a large piece of obsidian.
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