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 ...

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 ...

More than 80 Stone Age tools have been unearthed at a farm in Dartmoor in the U.K. Experts believe these tools may be 8,000 years old, made by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The site, located near the ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...

Archaeologists have discovered special scrapers used for hunting by early humans 400,000 years ago, shedding light on technological adaptations that enabled our ancient ancestors to diversify their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...