Neanderthals aren’t typically thought of as great artisans or crafters, though they did make some pretty impressive weapons ...

Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skillOn Saturday, a group hosted what's known as a "knap-in".Knapping is the practice of building ...

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 ...

mimicking adult knapping as part of early social learning. The goal, in this case, was not a functional tool, but rather a 'pretend' tool—possibly a play object or training piece," Stepanchuk ...

Some of the “fragments show cut marks” and evidence of “knapping,” a technique typically used on pieces of flint to carve and shape the stone into usable tools, researchers said.

while flint and quartz rate at seven to eight units. This makes ivory a poor choice of material for functional tools, leaving the researchers to speculate as to the purpose of these staggeringly ...

The piece was created using a process called knapping in which a tool like an antler tine would be used to gradually remove small flakes from the larger flint piece until it was shaped ...

The association of Levallois knapping with bifaces has provisionally classified this industry as a possible Mousterian with bifaces. However, due to the surface alteration of most of the flint tools, ...

It was Bar-Yosef who encouraged Eren to learn flint-knapping skills. In the process, Eren figured out a new method by which to measure how stone tools were resharpened and tested his hypothesis.

Mahkato Wacipi Education Day presenter Terry Carter taught a group of Prairie Winds Middle School sixth graders about the art of flint knapping. As Carter described it, it’s the art of making st ...