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 ...

It's several times sharper than surgical steel and has an iridescent beauty that masks its use as a deadly tool. It's obsidian — a hard, dark volcanic glass used for thousands of years by American ...

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 ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skill On Saturday, a group hosted what's known as a "knap-in". Knapping is the ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping. Donald Cameron with Panhandle Flint Knappers says around 2007, he ran into a man out ...

Pebble Hill Plantation is hosting a special Native American program Saturday, Oct. 29, with Ben Kirkland, who is often called this region’s preeminent expert on Native American culture. The program ...

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 ...

Stone suitable for flint knapping is fine-grained and isotropic, sharp, and characteristically prone to production failures in the hands of novicesThis poses significant problems for university ...

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 ...