At last year’s Knap-In, I held a throwing stick like the one Native Americans used thousands of years ago. The stick was thin and light, notched at one end to hold the end of a small spear. W… ...

"People were knapping here 12,000 years ago," he said as the pile of flint chips at his feet grew. "It was such a common technology that kids, women, men — they all were flint-knapping.

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 ...

Flint knapping and metallurgy, and notably their relationship, are particularly appropriate to observe regularities which operate at different scales, the first one within the developmental lines of ...

Specifically, they study stone projectile points, such as arrowheads and spear points, made by flint knapping, the ancient practice of chipping away at the edges of rocks to shape them into ...

TO fashion a flint implement both knowledge of the tricks of the trade and skill in execution are required. Watching the flint knappers at Brandon can teach the student many a 'wrinkle', but any ...

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 ...

Bob Winters of New Brunswick, N.J., will demonstrate the art of flint knapping Sunday at an open house at the Henry Homestead on Henry Road, Bushkill Township. Knapping is a technique used by local… ...

The Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In is May 24 to 26 at the Coshocton County Fairgrounds, where attendees will have the chance to try knapping.

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 ...