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 ...

An event bolstered by the Iowa State Archaeological and the Hawkeye Archaeological societies teaches participants the ancient art of creating tools and weapons.On Sunday, 16 registered craftsmen, ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping. Donald Cameron with Panhandle Flint Knappers says around 2007, he ran into a man out ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bipolar knapping is presented as a case study for the interpretation of African prehistory. Bipolar knapping was first thought of as a ...

Lithic Technology, Vol. 40, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 147-168 (22 pages) This paper explores the basic characteristics affecting the mechanical behavior of non-flint rocks, such as quartz and slate, ...

Lithic flakes are remnants of tool production revealing us past life. Stone age and Early Metal Period stone tools Archaeologists most often find lithic flakes, i.e., waste from stone tool production, ...

The authors observed capucins deliberately damaging stones by using a hand-held quartzite cobble stone to violently hammer other quartzite cobbles embedded in a large stone conglomerate structure (Fig ...