Potato knapping as a research medium also has much potential to answer fundamental anthropological questions, as illustrated by a case study in cultural transmission. Lithic Technology is the leading ...

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 ...

Knapping, the practice of cracking and chipping stone into tools such as spear points, requires the skill of an artist.

Migration route from Africa given new clarity by 100,000-year-old tools discovered outside Dimona in the Negev Desert made by unusual flint-knapping technique ...

His knapping tools include stones and ivory from mule deer and moose antlers. Watson often wonders what Native Americans went through while making arrowheads and knives.

Many Indian arrowheads were anciently crafted by flint-knapping, using tools like an anvil-stone, a hammer stone, and a deer antler. Over the years, I have found ancient flintknapped arrowheads ...

He finds his therapy in the intricate process of flint knapping, the shaping of stone like obsidian or flint into tools.

GeoCorps Intern, Joshua Wynn will do a flint knapping demonstration to highlight different techniques and how tools have changed throughout history in various cultures.

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Skilled knapping achieves the keen edge and the serrations, made by striking chips off a piece of flint, chert or obsidian.