Van Order, 62, has made a “profitable hobby” of the timeless art of flint knapping to create examples ... calms him and gets him “back to the Stone Age,” he said jokingly.

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to ... flakes and blades can break in half during flint knapping; transporting tools in, say, small leather ...

Two wacky Israeli designers have recreated Stone Age tools with a 21st Century twist ... The sleek modern handles present a striking contrast to the flint blades, creating a set of stone tools ...

Patten. Flint-knapping is equal parts art and science, which I learned firsthand as Eren guided me while making a Stone Age hand axe out of the random chunks of chert Eren keeps in buckets in his lab.

Compared with findings at other Stone Age sites in Europe ... If it is actually a pressure-flaker for fine flint knapping, then this would tell us something about how such work was conceptualized ...

Two of the stone tools analyzed were made using the Levallois knapping technique of the Levant Stone Age, in which a flint stone core is essentially flaked away to make a point that can cut and hack.