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 ...

Wapakoneta native Adam Chanthasit performed a flint knapping demonstration at Homeless Books on Feb. 22. Knapping is an ...

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 ...

Every day, hundreds of stone artifact enthusiasts around the world sit down and begin striking a stone with special tools attempting to craft the perfect arrowhead or knife. This craft is known as ...

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 ...

John C. Whittaker, an archaeologist, has long crafted such tools for experimental purposes, to see how they were used, how much effort it took to make them, and what the waste products of manufacture ...

If you paddle a canoe down Knife Lake on the Canadian border northeast of Ely, you're passing sites where native people once sat and created stone tools from Knife Lake siltstone. "There are outcrops ...