Marquardt Lund

marquardt.lund@gmx.de

I am 43 years old, married and have a daughter. I studied archaeology, worked about a year at different digs, made a lot experimental archaeology (mostly about projectile points, but with two friends, I made a dugout with polished flintaxes and -adzes). Since 10 years, I'm working as a construction engineer for a big European building company. I'm a self taught knapper and started at the age of 14 at the flint-rich beaches of the Baltic sea near my home. About 7 years ago I stopped flintknapping because of the birth of my daughter and lots of work. Last summer I started again after a Holiday at the Dordogne where I loaded our car with much super colored Bergerac Flint (I will touch that stuff only when I recover my full ability again). I'm knapping traditional, which means for me that I use only antler flakers and copper for pressure only at Neolithic pieces. I worked the hardstone battle-axes with pecking and grinding, the longer one took about 100 hours!

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