Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skill On Saturday, a group hosted what's known as a "knap-in". Knapping is the ...

A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Kila's Tom Blais uses traditional stone and ...

Jim Fisher of Grand Island, N.Y., demonstrates the launch of an atlatl during the Bald Eagle Knap-in at Camp Anderson north of Tyrone on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski TYRONE — Anyone who ...

The Motley County Historical Commission has scheduled its annual West Texas Knapping, Artifact and Rock Sale Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27-28, in Roaring Springs. This year’s event will feature a ...

RICHLAND -- The Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science and Technology is offering an all-day workshop in the art of flintknapping. Participants will learn how ancient peoples shaped stone and ...

Harlan Mauch spent two summers during the late 1990s searching the prairie for arrowheads. Frustrated by his failure to find a single point, Mauch started learning to make his own. Gradually he began ...

Stone suitable for flint knapping is fine-grained and isotropic, sharp, and characteristically prone to production failures in the hands of novicesThis poses significant problems for university ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?