Seated on a low bench, Jim Spears used a piece of deer horn to whittle down a heavy chunk of Missouri flint. For an hour ... known as a Dalton point. "Every stone is different and every stone ...

Knapping is the art of cracking stone in a controlled fashion, Whitfield said. Flint, chert and obsidian are commonly used. Whitfield said he first flakes away at the edges of a stone with a ...

Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skill On Saturday, a ...

has made a “profitable hobby” of the timeless art of flint knapping to create examples of early weapons, including stone arrowheads, knives, spears and implements. The craft calms him and gets ...

The Coshocton Flint Festival ... spears, stone tools, bows, cordage and other items from hide and bone. There are jewelry makers and other artisans as well, and people attending will have ...

That’s spelt with a ‘k’ and has nothing to do with taking 40 winks. He makes beautiful (and potentially lethal) arrowheads, and fixes them to shafts of ash or hazel with sinew or string.

METIN EREN: It's a very soothing sound. ST CLAIR: That's knapping with a K. He's a master flint knapper, fashioning stone tools in his experimental archaeology lab at Kent State University.