Friday, April 26, 2013

HUGO NAMI. FLINTKNAPPER

Hugo Nami making experimental site in Northern Peninsula Mitre, Terra Del Fuego 1985.
Photo by: Thomas Clemens.

Hugo Nami making experimental site in Northern Peninsula Mitre, Terra Del Fuego 1985.
Photo by: Thomas Clemens






Hugo Nami making experimental site in Northern Peninsula Mitre, Terra Del Fuego 1985.
Photo by: Thomas Clemens

Archaeologist, researcher; Born: 1957 Location: Lomas del Mirador Country: Argentina Professor of Archaeology. Buenos Aires , Argentina. Hugo came to the USA in the 1980s and studied with Errett Callahan an American archaeologist, flintknapper, and pioneer in the fields of experimental archaeology and lithic replication studies. Hugo worked for the Smithsonian Museum for a time.

Coffee break in  Chile, excavation  1986 HUGO NAMI








Nami also worked closely with wilderness expert, Joe Dabill and Dr. Robson Bonnichsen, Director, Center for the Study of the First Americans and Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State University. Hugo has written hundreds of books and papers on Archaeology and flintknapping. And has had dozens of knapping students in Argentina. Hugi is a Karate expert and blackbelt.
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Hugo studied with Joe Dabill
Hugo studied with Callahan.

Robson Bonnichsen. La Plaza Museum. March 24th, 1988 photo by Hugo Nami





 

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