Kila man uses flint knapping to bring history to life A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years.

Michael Marshall discusses hypotheses on absent fingers in Stone Age cave art. Perhaps there is a simpler explanation. The ubiquitous practice of flint-knapping would have resulted in many injured ...

4,500-year-old flint blade discovered at construction site in Kernmünsterland, Germany, highlighting rare Stone Age artifacts in an unusual archaeological find.

STAVANGER, NORWAY—Archaeologist Sigrid Alræk Dugstad of the University of Stavanger thinks that a discarded flake ax found at the Mesolithic site of Hundvåg in southwestern Norway was probably ...

Ancient hominins needed the right stone tools to butcher ... tools were made of limestone, flint, and quartz. One of the primary objectives of the study was to examine two toolmaking techniques: ...

Craftsmen demonstrate how to create arrowheads, 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 ...

Knapping is the practice of building tools from stone. The group created arrow head and knifes. The technology was used in the paleo era around the world, and today is being preserved as a hobby.

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some archaeologists. They could be early signs of creativity and symbolic thinking in ...

Stone Age humans flocked to latest models of flint tools – and worshipped where they came from Ancient humans developed more streamlined ‘Quina’ scrapers to hunt and butcher smaller prey ...

An archaeologist explores the importance of flint to Stone Age man. A modern day worker makes a replica of a Stone Age arrow, showing us how skilled Stone Age people were in their use of flint.

TO fashion a flint implement both knowledge of the tricks of the trade and skill in execution are required. Watching the flint knappers at Brandon can teach the student many a 'wrinkle', but any ...