It's several times sharper than surgical steel and has an iridescent beauty that masks its use as a deadly tool. It's obsidian — a hard, dark volcanic glass used for thousands of years by American ...

Firelands Archeology hosted for the first time Flintbusters and Beyond for community members to learn more about flint and its uses through time. The free program, hosted at French Creek Nature Center ...

At the May meeting of the Monroe County Earth Science Association, 20 people sat around towel covered tables, alert and knapping. Knapping is the process of shaping a stone into a tool by striking it.

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 building ...

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In the summer of 2025, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) unearthed an incredible Early Bronze Age flint blade production workshop. The workshop is dated back to about 5,500 ...