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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For thousands of years before the discovery of metallurgy, people fashioned tools and weapons from stone. This ancient skill will be demonstrated by skilled stone tool makers during a “knap-in” from ...
As chips tiny and large fly from his raw flintstone, Bernie Benavidez may think: "Once upon a time, someone related to me was doing the same thing." Did one of his Mescalero Apache ancestors, while ...