ANNUALLY, from the center of the annual traditional bow hunters' camp at the Rutter farm near Ripley, just south of Stillwater, comes a sound that a select few would readily identify. At this camp of ...

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 ...

Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skill On Saturday, a group hosted what's known as a "knap-in". Knapping is the practice of building ...

Flintknapping is not for the faint of heart. I realized that while looking down at the blood pooling in my dad's hand. The razor-sharp glass shard had sliced the tip of his finger, right through the ...

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 ...