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 ...
An event bolstered by the Iowa State Archaeological and the Hawkeye Archaeological societies teaches participants the ancient art of creating tools and weapons.On Sunday, 16 registered craftsmen, ...
Jim Fisher of Grand Island, N.Y., demonstrates the launch of an atlatl during the Bald Eagle Knap-in at Camp Anderson north of Tyrone on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski TYRONE — Anyone who ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?
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