Flintknappers
Clip: Season 6 Episode 3 | 5m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Bob Keiper and Gary Eldred hunt for the perfect rocks to shape into stone tools.
Bob Keiper and Gary Eldred are flintknappers. They use ancient techniques to turn rocks into stone tools like knives or arrowheads. But first they have to find the right kind of rock, and that leads them to Hixton, Wisconsin.
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Flintknappers
Clip: Season 6 Episode 3 | 5m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Bob Keiper and Gary Eldred are flintknappers. They use ancient techniques to turn rocks into stone tools like knives or arrowheads. But first they have to find the right kind of rock, and that leads them to Hixton, Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Life is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
Funding for Wisconsin Life is provided by the Wooden Nickel Fund, Mary and Lowell Peterson, A.C.V. and Mary Elston Family, Obrodovich Family Foundation, Stanley J. Cottrill Fund, Alliant Energy, UW...