No worries about being asked for a copy of the pdf to Witthoft's article. Now that I got it, I don't mind sharing it. Histarch doesn't allow me to add the .pdf's to this email, so please email me off list and I will get the article to you as soon as possible.
Thanks Kev for the other article. I am looking for it now.
Have a good holiday season everyone!
Jon VB
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> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:00:04 -0700
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> Subject: HISTARCH Digest - 18 Dec 2013 to 19 Dec 2013 (#2013-274)
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> There are 3 messages totaling 207 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. pdf of John Witthoft's Gunflint article (3)
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> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:31:10 -0500
> From: KEVIN M DONAGHY <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pdf of John Witthoft's Gunflint article
>
> Dear Everyone,
> I know some of us have been hounding JV Beckum for the Witthoft paper from
> PA Archaeologist, In the meanwhile - see the below citation - i think
> anyone interested in flint knapping and gunflints will find exceptional,
> and since it is critical may be worth reading by anyone considering reading
> the Witthoft paper, with all respects to Witthoft, whose individual
> contributions to archaeology are many. - Like Mead when she had that
> walking stick you could kill a horse with, we should be respectful of early
> research - 50 years of hindsight is an exponential differential. How's
> that for a morning rhyme
>
> this should be available through on-line library database search - i
> sourced through academia.com
>
> Post-Medieval Archaeology 46/1 2012 - 116-142 - 'State of the Art' of
> British Gunflint Research with special focus on the early gunflint workshop
> at Dun Eistean, Lewis
> Sincerely,
> kev
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jon Van Beckum <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > Greetings everyone!
> >
> > Does anyone have a pdf of John Witthoft's 1966 "A History of Gunflints"
> > article from the Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 36: 12-49 that they could
> > share? I would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Jon Van Beckum
> >
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> > Jon Van Beckum
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> kevin m. donaghy
> graduate student
> Temple University
> Department of Anthropology
>
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>
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:50:23 -0500
> From: Karlis Karklins <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pdf of John Witthoft's Gunflint article
>
> Hi all!
>
> Also, don't forget the gunflint bibs by Kris Hirst:
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Documents/gunflints.html
>
> and Don Ball:
> http://infosys.murraystate.edu/KWesler/Symposium%20OVHA%20Volume%2014/V14_p036-050.pdf
>
> Karlis
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:31 AM, KEVIN M DONAGHY <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > Dear Everyone,
> > I know some of us have been hounding JV Beckum for the Witthoft paper from
> > PA Archaeologist, In the meanwhile - see the below citation - i think
> > anyone interested in flint knapping and gunflints will find exceptional,
> > and since it is critical may be worth reading by anyone considering reading
> > the Witthoft paper, with all respects to Witthoft, whose individual
> > contributions to archaeology are many. - Like Mead when she had that
> > walking stick you could kill a horse with, we should be respectful of early
> > research - 50 years of hindsight is an exponential differential. How's
> > that for a morning rhyme
> >
> > this should be available through on-line library database search - i
> > sourced through academia.com
> >
> > Post-Medieval Archaeology 46/1 2012 - 116-142 - 'State of the Art' of
> > British Gunflint Research with special focus on the early gunflint workshop
> > at Dun Eistean, Lewis
> > Sincerely,
> > kev
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jon Van Beckum <[log in to unmask]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings everyone!
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a pdf of John Witthoft's 1966 "A History of Gunflints"
> > > article from the Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 36: 12-49 that they could
> > > share? I would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > Jon Van Beckum
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------
> > > Jon Van Beckum
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > ------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > kevin m. donaghy
> > graduate student
> > Temple University
> > Department of Anthropology
> >
>
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>
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:16:15 +1100
> From: Richard Wright <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pdf of John Witthoft's Gunflint article
>
> Hello
>
> Moving back in time, there is now a PDF of Skertchly's remarkable 1879
> monograph "On the Manufacture of Gun-Flints". It is freely downloadable from
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nlp5zh7
>
> I doubt that anybody today would support Skertchly's ideas on the
> cultural continuity of flint mining stretching back to the Palaeolithic.
>
> However, his observations of the East Anglian gunflint makers at work
> are priceless.
>
> Skertchly took a share in a flint mine and learned the craft himself.
> Among other details, he gives us the rate of output of flakes per day
> and the number of gunflints that could be produced per minute. There are
> pages dealing with the ethno-taxonomic categories of the gunflints, with
> informants describing how individual gunflints deviate from the ideal
> for a category. The finished products are tested by Skertchly, who
> presents the statistics of success and failure of particular gun-flints
> in igniting charges of powder.
>
> A fascinating monograph.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 19/12/2013 22:31, KEVIN M DONAGHY wrote:
> > Dear Everyone,
> > I know some of us have been hounding JV Beckum for the Witthoft paper from
> > PA Archaeologist, In the meanwhile - see the below citation - i think
> > anyone interested in flint knapping and gunflints will find exceptional,
> > and since it is critical may be worth reading by anyone considering reading
> > the Witthoft paper, with all respects to Witthoft, whose individual
> > contributions to archaeology are many. - Like Mead when she had that
> > walking stick you could kill a horse with, we should be respectful of early
> > research - 50 years of hindsight is an exponential differential. How's
> > that for a morning rhyme
> >
> > this should be available through on-line library database search - i
> > sourced through academia.com
> >
> > Post-Medieval Archaeology 46/1 2012 - 116-142 - 'State of the Art' of
> > British Gunflint Research with special focus on the early gunflint workshop
> > at Dun Eistean, Lewis
> > Sincerely,
> > kev
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jon Van Beckum <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings everyone!
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a pdf of John Witthoft's 1966 "A History of Gunflints"
> >> article from the Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 36: 12-49 that they could
> >> share? I would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> Jon Van Beckum
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------
> >> Jon Van Beckum
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> ------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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