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 Knappers ...

A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Kila's Tom Blais uses traditional stone and ...

RICHLAND -- The Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science and Technology is offering an all-day workshop in the art of flintknapping. Participants will learn how ancient peoples shaped stone and ...

On the morning of July 9, 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Since then, conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies has supposed that ...

During a trip to Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Site, I came across a group of people just outside the fort gates tapping, grinding and hammering on stones. They were learning and ...

It doesn't matter where Bo Earls is. He could be on his honeymoon, at the park with his two children or sitting in his man cave of a garage. He finds his therapy in the intricate process of flint ...

The original piece of Flint Ridge flint that Rickerson used to create an arrowhead. P-J photo by Stacey Gross WARREN, Pa. — “It’s a puzzle,” said Ryan Rickerson, a local flint knapper and Panama ...

When considering this weekend’s Silver River Knap-In — a hands-on showcase of stone tool making and so much more — do not just think arrowheads and primitive relics. Instead, think fine art. That is ...

Harlan Mauch spent two summers during the late 1990s searching the prairie for arrowheads. Frustrated by his failure to find a single point, Mauch started learning to make his own. Gradually he began ...

ANNUALLY, from the center of the annual traditional bow hunters' camp at the Rutter farm near Ripley, just south of Stillwater, comes a sound that a select few would readily identify. At this camp of ...

MAKANDA — About 20 people got in touch with their primitive sides during a workshop Saturday at Touch of Nature Envi-ronmental Center’s Upper 40 Cabin. Participants in The Art of Flintknapping ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- It took three months of practice before Bob Gossett was satisfied with the first arrowhead he made. A decade later, he can knock one out in about 20 minutes. Gossett’s skill was on ...