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 ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — 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 ...

Park Rangers from the Nebraska National Forests & Grasslands, Hudson-Meng Education and Research Center will host an interpretive program on Saturday, July 7, at 10:30 am. The talk will be at Chadron ...

Pebble Hill Plantation is hosting a special Native American program Saturday, Oct. 29, with Ben Kirkland, who is often called this region’s preeminent expert on Native American culture. The program ...

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 ...

Students at Heritage Elementary School in the Southside Independent School District have been discussing rocks, minerals and soil. Alex Graf, a student in Jessica Delgado's first-grade class, is very ...

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 ...