Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...
Every day, hundreds of stone artifact enthusiasts around the world sit down and begin striking a stone with special tools attempting to craft the perfect arrowhead or knife. This craft is known as ...
A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Kila's Tom Blais uses traditional stone and ...
In this video, I explore the use of stone as a primitive technology for creating survival tools, focusing on flintknapping to ...
If you paddle a canoe down Knife Lake on the Canadian border northeast of Ely, you're passing sites where native people once sat and created stone tools from Knife Lake siltstone. "There are outcrops ...
As chips tiny and large fly from his raw flintstone, Bernie Benavidez may think: "Once upon a time, someone related to me was doing the same thing." Did one of his Mescalero Apache ancestors, while ...
For thousands of years before the discovery of metallurgy, people fashioned tools and weapons from stone. This ancient skill will be demonstrated by skilled stone tool makers during a “knap-in” from ...