Firelands Archeology hosted for the first time Flintbusters and Beyond for community members to learn more about flint and ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A trove of Paleolithic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rex Watson displays two bi-face knives that he made from Oregon and California obsidian. The handles are from mule deer and elk antlers. (The Observer/PHIL BULLOCK). STORY BY DICK MASON OF THE ...

Jim Fisher of Grand Island, N.Y., demonstrates the launch of an atlatl during the Bald Eagle Knap-in at Camp Anderson north of Tyrone on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski TYRONE — Anyone who ...

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 ...

Dimona youths employed in the excavation. Recent excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority together with local youths from Dimona in southern Israel, discovered a Middle Paleolithic ...

You could say human evolution started when the first brave ape came down from the trees. But scientists have long said that it was making tools that really set humans apart. And if tools define our ...

Ocala — Archaeologists and artists gathered at Silver River State Park over the weekend to demonstrate their prehistoric flint-knapping skills and showcase their artwork at the fourth annual Silver ...

Montana State Parks will host demonstrations on Plains Indian sign language and flint knapping at Pictograph Cave State Park on July 30 at 1 p.m. Ron Garritson, a Montana native who lived on the Crow ...