BRANDON — The Flintknappers pub has the kind of name that stands out and a location to match. This smoky bar, on a corner in the town’s main intersection, has been a pub since the early 1930s. Sheds ...

When they aren't trading good-natured, verbal barbs, the flintknappers at this week's Osage Spring Knap-In east of Boonville are connecting with each other and ancient stone arts with a seemingly ...

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 ...

John C. Whittaker, an archaeologist, has long crafted such tools for experimental purposes, to see how they were used, how much effort it took to make them, and what the waste products of manufacture ...

DULUTH, Minn.—Dave Schorn sits on a stool, whacking a piece of Danish flint with a heavy copper shaft called a billet. Flakes and chunks of the stone fall to the floor. It is not hard to imagine a ...

SALISBURY — Bill Earnhardt remembers the moment in Bentonville, Ark., on Nov. 3, 2015, when he looked over at his son, Dwayne, knowing what this meant to both of them. “I said, ‘I’m holding the ...

Episode: 2734 Artisan flintknappers of Blombos Cave, 60,000 years too soon. Today, we meet some ancient flintknappers.

Who’d have thought that hundreds of people from all over the country would bond over hunks and flakes of stone. But that’s exactly what happened at the Stone Tool Craftsman Show at Letchworth State ...

PESHAWBESTOWN — The tradition of carving lithics for arrows, spearheads, and knives goes as far back as the human desire to hunt and eat meat. Flintknapping was once the only way for evolving humans ...

Modern flintknappers who practice making stone tools hurt themselves with surprising frequency. But injuries that today require stitches or a trip to the emergency room could have been a death ...