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.
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 ...
Sep. 24—TRAVERSE CITY — To the untrained eye, the edges of arrowheads may seem similar, but at a closer look, there's a deeper story of how they were made, said Steve Feringa. The deliberate removal ...
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 original piece of Flint Ridge flint that Rickerson used to create an arrowhead. P-J photo by Stacey Gross WARREN, Pa. — “It’s a puzzle,” said Ryan Rickerson, a local flint knapper and Panama ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.