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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

RICHLAND -- The Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science and Technology is offering an all-day workshop in the art of flintknapping. Participants will learn how ancient peoples shaped stone and ...

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 ...

Harlan Mauch spent two summers during the late 1990s searching the prairie for arrowheads. Frustrated by his failure to find a single point, Mauch started learning to make his own. Gradually he began ...

An event bolstered by the Iowa State Archaeological and the Hawkeye Archaeological societies teaches participants the ancient art of creating tools and weapons.On Sunday, 16 registered craftsmen, ...

MIDDLE RIVER – Kirk Dreier spends his days working alongside a mallard duck named Quacky and two captive possums. Dreier, the director of Marshy Point Nature Center in Middle River, spends his work ...