Dan Stueber
Flintknapper, Lithic Technologist, Primitive Skills Practitioner
Dan Stueber has been a flintknapper and practitioner of primitive technologies since 1982. He has studied flintknapping and lithic technology with Dr. John Fagan and Dr. Errett Callahan and for the last two decades has served as teaching assistant to several of Dr. Fagan's lithic analysis classes and workshops and to Dr. Callahan's flintknapping master classes. He has taught at University of Victoria and co-taught courses with Dr. Fagan in all aspects of lithic technology and analysis for Portland State University, Malheur Wildlife Refuge and to archaeologists with the US Forest Service, US Park Service, US Bureau of Land Management and California Dept. of Transportation. Dan is the Lithic Specialist at Archaeological Investigations Northwest where he does technological analysis and has contributed to reports on hundreds of prehistoric sites including the entire assemblage from the Marmes Rockshelter (45FR50).*
Dan has had the opportunity to study stone tool collections and technologies in many countries around the world and continues to teach courses in ground stone and lithic technology in the Pacific Northwest and flintknapping courses through Earthwalk Northwest.
*Marmes Rockshelter; A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use, Edited by Brent A. Hicks, Washington State Univ. Press, Pullman WA.