Flint (and glass) knapping is no longer practiced on a large scale, but it used to be the primary method of making weapons for primitive cultures. In this day and age of course, it’s easy to go to the ...

DULUTH, Minn.—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 ...

DeeDee Evans, left, of Lehi, talks to Mark Sullivan, center, and Mindy McWaters, right, about how to get started flint knapping at the monthly meeting of the Utah Valley Knapping Association at the ...

It's easy to catch Claude Van Order napping. Make that knapping. Van Order, 62, has made a “profitable hobby” of the timeless art of flint knapping to create examples of early weapons, including stone ...

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 ...

Kennewick Community Education is presenting a two-evening workshop on the introduction to knapping, the art of making stone-cutting tools such as arrowheads, stone scrappers, drills and knives.

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Stone tool manufacture and use are considered key adaptations in human evolution. The understanding of the biomechanical features and anatomical constraints of hominins during stone tool production ...