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 ...

COSHOCTON − People attending the Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In said they come in for two main reasons — friends and flint. The event going for more than 40 years was held at the Coshocton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firelands Archeology hosted for the first time Flintbusters and Beyond for community members to learn more about flint and its uses through time. The free program, hosted at French Creek Nature Center ...