In the “Core of Rediscovery” part of the program, Larry Kinsella presented replicated artifacts and information on the technology used by Lewis and Clark and the native tribes that they encountered.
PART THREE
THE CORE OF REDISCOVERY
In the “Core of Rediscovery” part of the program, Larry Kinsella presented replicated artifacts and information on the technology used by Lewis and Clark and the native tribes that they encountered.
Vocabulary:
Fire-making:
 | Hand-drill fire—drilling wood spindles into wooden palette |
| Fireboard—wooden palette made of soft wood—cottonwood, yucca, cedar, |
| Spindle—long stick made of soft wood—cattail, yucca, goldenrod |
| Bird’s nest—cedar bark shavings to accept coal |
| Flint and steel—striking chert onto steel |
General terms:
| Archaeology—the study of the physical remains of civilizations |
| Archaeologist—one who studies the physical remains of civilizations |
| Experimental Archaeologist—one who replicates artifacts and uses them to see how they were made, used, and lasted |
Flintknapping—the art of taking a rock made of flint or chert and knapping with a billet to make an arrow point
| Flint (or chert) a metamorphic rock found in limestone |
| Knapping—striking the rock |
| Billet—often an antler from a deer or elk used to strike the rock |
| Pressure flaker—a smaller tool used to do fine detail chipping |
| Flintknapper—one who makes arrowheads |
| Arrowheads—small, often triangular pieces of chert (or metal) that have been knapped which are used on the ends of arrow shafts |
Spears—long shafts of wood used in hunting with three parts—the flint (metal) spear point, the foreshaft, and the shaft
| Spear point—sometimes called knives made of chert or metal used at the end of shafts for hunting |
| Foreshaft—(dart) retractable short piece of wood at the end of the long shaft that holds the spear point |
| Shaft—long piece of wood |
| Atlatl—a spear throwing device with a hook at one end that allows the spear to travel 3 times further and with 300 times more strength |
| Banner Stone—a counter weight used when hunting white-tail deer |
Stone axes
| Full- grooved |
| 3/4 grooved made from granite and lashed onto wooden club |
| Celts—Not grooved and imbedded into the club |
Cordage—Rope often made from plants such as jute
Sharks-Tooth Club—a ceremonial club with 5 great white sharks’ teeth and 8 serrated flint points.
Birger Figurine—a statue found at Cahokia Mounds that shows a woman kneeling on a snake with a short-handled hoe in its back and climbing up the woman’s back to transform into a vine with 5 gourds on it
Science: Click on Stories and Stone Teacher's Guide and scroll down to "Activities for Stone Tool Presentation."
Language: Write a story about the Birger Figurine. Write a page in the Lewis and Clark journal citing the various stone tools and fire making in the presentation.
Art: Make cordage—add beads and feathers to make interesting jewelry
The final story “Raccoon and Crayfish” is in Iroquois Stories Heroes and Heroines Monster and Magic by Joseph Bruchac, The Crossing Press, Trumansburg, New York, 1985, ISBN 0-89594-167-8 Joe Bruchac's webpage: www.josephbruchac.com
The expedition encountered nearly 50 different tribes to find out about them visit
| www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/native |
For information on the tribes sited in the Piasa visit:
| www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/il_id.html |
For an easy search by keyword, go to this site and click “Search the Trail’:
| www.lewisandclarktrail.com |
For information on Cahokia Mounds:
http://www.cahokiamounds.com/cahokia.html
For info on Marilyn Kinsella or Larry Kinsella visit:
| www.marilynkinsella.org www.flintknapper.com |
