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 ...
Hunters nowadays use firearms or high-tech bowhunting equipment, but centuries ago — 3.3 million years ago, actually — the weapon of choice was an arrowhead honed by hand. It's a practice called ...
That’s spelt with a ‘k’ and has nothing to do with taking 40 winks. He makes beautiful (and potentially lethal) arrowheads, and fixes them to shafts of ash or hazel with sinew or string. The earliest ...
MAKANDA — About 20 people got in touch with their primitive sides during a workshop Saturday at Touch of Nature Envi-ronmental Center’s Upper 40 Cabin. Participants in The Art of Flintknapping ...
Bob Briggs has been flintknapping for years, but his hobby dates back to the early days of humanity. Flintknapping is an ancient skill where craftsmen turn stones into sharp arrowheads, and thanks to ...
NOEL, Mo. -- Seated on a low bench, Jim Spears used a piece of deer horn to whittle down a heavy chunk of Missouri flint. For an hour, he tapped, whacked and smoothed the hard rock until it was ...