Kila man uses flint knapping to bring history to life A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years.

His knapping tools include stones and ivory from mule deer and moose antlers. Watson often wonders what Native Americans went through while making arrowheads and knives.

A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping.

Knappers and knapping enthusiasts from across Pennsylvania and beyond gather at Knap-In to slowly, painstakingly shape flint, chert, obsidian or similarly fracturing mineral into stone tools ...

Knapping is the shaping of flint or other stones through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or ...

TO fashion a flint implement both knowledge of the tricks of the trade and skill in execution are required. Watching the flint knappers at Brandon can teach the student many a 'wrinkle', but any ...

GeoCorps Intern, Joshua Wynn will do a flint knapping demonstration to highlight different techniques and how tools have changed throughout history in various cultures.

Montana State Parks will host demonstrations on Plains Indian sign language and flint knapping at Pictograph Cave State Park on July 30 at 1 p.m.

NOEL, Mo. -- Seated on a low bench, Jim Spears used a piece of deer horn to whittle down a heavy chunk of Missouri flint. For an hour, he tapped, whacked and smoothed the hard rock until it was ...

One of the most ancient and useful activities routinely performed in Naumkeag centuries ago, was flint-knapping.