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 ...
Rex Watson displays two bi-face knives that he made from Oregon and California obsidian. The handles are from mule deer and elk antlers. (The Observer/PHIL BULLOCK). STORY BY DICK MASON OF THE ...
RICHLAND -- The Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science and Technology is offering an all-day workshop in the art of flintknapping. Participants will learn how ancient peoples shaped stone and ...
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 ...
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skill On Saturday, a group hosted what's known as a "knap-in". Knapping is the ...
On the morning of July 9, 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Since then, conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies has supposed that ...
During a trip to Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Site, I came across a group of people just outside the fort gates tapping, grinding and hammering on stones. They were learning and ...
When considering this weekend’s Silver River Knap-In — a hands-on showcase of stone tool making and so much more — do not just think arrowheads and primitive relics. Instead, think fine art. That is ...
The original piece of Flint Ridge flint that Rickerson used to create an arrowhead. P-J photo by Stacey Gross WARREN, Pa. — “It’s a puzzle,” said Ryan Rickerson, a local flint knapper and Panama ...
Harlan Mauch spent two summers during the late 1990s searching the prairie for arrowheads. Frustrated by his failure to find a single point, Mauch started learning to make his own. Gradually he began ...
Stone suitable for flint knapping is fine-grained and isotropic, sharp, and characteristically prone to production failures in the hands of novicesThis poses significant problems for university ...
YAKIMA, Wash. -- It took three months of practice before Bob Gossett was satisfied with the first arrowhead he made. A decade later, he can knock one out in about 20 minutes. Gossett’s skill was on ...
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