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 practice of ...

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.

Flintknapping is not for the faint of heart. I realized that while looking down at the blood pooling in my dad's hand. The razor-sharp glass shard had sliced the tip of his finger, right through ...

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 ...