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 ...

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 ...

The past came alive Saturday afternoon at Napa Valley Museum in Yountville with an ancient arrow-making technique that was essential to the survival of Native American tribes throughout the country.

The Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In goes back 40 years, but is in its second year in Coshocton. It features various vendors and artisans making arrowheads, spears, stone tools and more. Flint ...

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 ...

Water Creek, Ark. (KATV) — A practice that dates back to prehistoric ages has been heralded as an annual family friendly event that attendees of all ages can enjoy in Water Creek. Knapping, which is a ...

Dave Schorn sits on a stool, whacking a piece of Danish flint with a heavy copper shaft called a billet. Flakes and chunks of the stone fall to the floor. It is not hard to imagine a native hunter ...

About 5,000 years ago, an ancient craftsman in modern-day central England picked up a piece of flint. Chipping away at the flint a tiny piece at a time, the Neolithic person “painstakingly” carved the ...

Modern technology helped Jim Meinecke step back in time to create hunting bows and arrows as they were built centuries ago. The bow hunter from Fayetteville learned the art of making his own wooden ...

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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 ...