About Knappers Anonymous


Knappers Anonymous sort of sprang into existence early in the spring of 1996. I have had a long-standing personal and academic interest in flintknapping, though I am a relative novice at the art myself. As part of my undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary, I took ARKY 509, Computer Uses for the Archaeologist. KA began as the final project for that course. Don Hanna, a Ph. D. candidate in the Archaeology Department at the U of C, had more to do with this page than I give him credit for. He taught me how to flintknap and how to write in HTML and was in many ways my mentor. There were other influences, not the least of which was the creation of KNAPPER, the flintknapping mailing list, by Jamie Boley and a recent course I'd taken on lithic technology. Through KNAPPER I was put in contact with Richard Sanchez, who has made some invaluable contributions to these pages. (If you've met someone at a Knap-In and thought he was me, he was probably Richard. I'm living in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada on a students budget, so I don't get out much)

KA recently went through a big move and a bit of a facelift. I graduated with a B. Sc. In Archaeology from the U of Calgary in the spring of 1996 and am just now beginning graduate studies in Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. My Calgary internet account is slowly dying and I will be handling all e-mail through my Memorial address from now on.

Tim Rast
Knappers Anonymous


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