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Experimental Archaeologist
About Frank Mills
In 2017, Frank Mills spent six weeks living in a reconstructed Mesolithic camp on the Isle of Skye, no electricity, no modern tools, using only flint-knapped blades, hand-twisted nettle cordage, and a birch-bark container he’d waterproofed with pine resin. That experiment reshaped how archaeologists model seasonal mobility in early Holocene Britain, revealing that resin procurement alone required a 40km round-trip across terrain previously assumed uninhabitable year-round. His work bridges lab-based microwear analysis and embodied practice: he’s published peer-reviewed protocols for replicating Neolithic axe hafting that account for wood grain torsion under repeated impact, a detail missing from every prior reconstruction guide. Frank doesn’t ask what tools *could* do; he asks what they *forced* people to know, memorise, and renegotiate daily. His field notes include soil pH readings from hearth layers, sketches of knapping fracture angles under northern twilight, and audio recordings of flint-on-flint resonance frequencies used to calibrate replica percussion tools.
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- “Why do you measure flint-knapping sound frequencies, and what did you learn?”
