Sycamore Shoals is hosting a workshop on June 21st where you can learn the skill yourself. You can click here to register for the June 21st workshop.

This event is held every Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend and celebrates the ancient art of flint knapping, the process of shaping stone into tools and weapons using traditional techniques ...

Knapping, which is a technique used to shape stone, is the main attraction for the 27th annual Water Creek Knapin, set to take place May 1-4. Organizers Gwen and Wesley Shipman have seen a steady ...

However, the conventional version of this story, which begins with hitting large stones with small stone hammers to produce cutting instruments, now faces a challenge. A team of anthropologists ...

The excavation has recovered a total of 438 flint artifacts, which were sparsely scattered in the study area. From a technological perspective, the analysis of this lithic industry indicates the ...

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.

a variety of raw material besides flint can be used in flintknapping, including agate, obsidian, jasper, chert and other stones. Flintnapping has been around for an almost inconceivably long time — ...

It features various vendors and artisans making arrowheads, spears, stone tools and more ... knappers like different types of flint. "It's modern flint knapping. I've promoted it as modern lithic art, ...

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

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 ...

The Pitt Rivers Museum authorities at Oxford have recently issued their first Occasional Paper on Technology, and it is entitled "The Manufacture of a Flint Arrowhead by Quartzite Hammer-stone"*.

KAMLOOPS – A group of Kamloops and Tk’emlúps Rural RCMP Detachment officers participated in a workshop on Friday (Oct. 13) to learn the art of arrowhead making ... the importance and relevance of ...