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In 2025, Israeli archaeologists unearthed an incredible Early Bronze Age flint blade production workshop from 5,500 years ago ...
KOUTS | The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will hold its general meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Kouts Library 101 E. Daumer Road.
Bob Estep from Roan Mountain explains the traditional tools used in flint knapping to Walker Campbell and Walker's grandmother Vickie Harris during the Sycamore Shoals State Historic Site knap-in.
GeoCorps Intern, Joshua Wynn will do a flint knapping demonstration to highlight different techniques and how tools have changed throughout history in various cultures.
Flintknapping, the art of creating arrow points, knives and other tools from rocks prone to conchoidal fracturing, is the addiction of a few in the traditional weapons crowd.
A palaeontology dig - believed to be the biggest in the country, with more than 200 volunteers - has uncovered mammoth skulls, a 7ft (2.1m) tusk, evidence of Neanderthals and 160 million-year-old ...
NPR's John Burnett visits with a master knapper outside of Austin, Texas. Flint knapping is the ancient art of pounding on rocks to make arrowheads and spearpoints. It's a hobby with a growing ...
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping. Donald Cameron with Panhandle Flint Knappers says around 2007, he ran into a man ...
Hotchkiss has been flint knapping since 2011 after he saw an artisan work and became interested in it. "It's an addiction. You make a point and your next point, you want to make better.