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 ...

Every day, hundreds of stone artifact enthusiasts around the world sit down and begin striking a stone with special tools attempting to craft the perfect arrowhead or knife. This craft is known as ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WAPAKONETA — Wapakoneta native Adam Chanthasit performed a flint knapping demonstration at Homeless Books on Feb. 22. Knapping is ...

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 ...

The Palaeolithic archaeological record in Britain captures a rather sudden increase in stone knapping skills around half a million years ago, indicating that a major milestone in human evolution may ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, which in turn played a large role in increasing human brain size and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...