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 ...

CANAL FULTON, Ohio (AP) - Dean Ziegler sits under a shady tree along the canal at Heritage Park, focusing on a new, unique design by striking away at a flint rock to shape the latest arrowhead of ...

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 ...

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.

TYRONE -- Anyone who has ever found an arrowhead and wondered how it was made can find that answer and more during the Bald Eagle Knap-In being held at Camp Anderson this weekend. The event is being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous communities near Yosemite often traded with distant tribes to obtain obsidian. Proper knapping largely hinges on ...

When considering this weekend’s Silver River Knap-In – a hands-on showcase of stone tool making and so much more – do not just think arrowheads and primitive relics. Instead, think fine art. That is ...

Against the staccato backdrop of stone hitting stone and flakes of flint clattering into a pile at his feet, Mark McDaniel recounts ancient history. And he talks from firsthand observation. "There's ...

At the May meeting of the Monroe County Earth Science Association, 20 people sat around towel covered tables, alert and knapping. Knapping is the process of shaping a stone into a tool by striking it.

Arrowheads can be found in many places throughout the world, but they didn’t get there on their own. Flint knapping is the art of making such things as arrowheads, stone tools, knives, etc., by slowly ...

The ultimate in retro weapons manufacturing will be demonstrated from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, and from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at the community center in Roaring Springs.

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 ...