CANAL FULTON, Ohio (AP) - Dean Ziegler sits under a shady tree along the canal at Heritage Park, focusing on a new, unique design by striking away at a flint rock to shape the latest arrowhead of ...

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 ...

The past came alive Saturday afternoon at Napa Valley Museum in Yountville with an ancient arrow-making technique that was essential to the survival of Native American tribes throughout the country.

Jim Fisher of Grand Island, N.Y., demonstrates the launch of an atlatl during the Bald Eagle Knap-in at Camp Anderson north of Tyrone on Friday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski TYRONE — Anyone who ...

It doesn't matter where Bo Earls is. He could be on his honeymoon, at the park with his two children or sitting in his man cave of a garage. He finds his therapy in the intricate process of flint ...

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 ...

At the May meeting of the Monroe County Earth Science Association, 20 people sat around towel covered tables, alert and knapping. Knapping is the process of shaping a stone into a tool by striking it.

At the May meeting of the Monroe County Earth Science Association, 20 people sat around towel covered tables, alert and knapping. Knapping is the process of shaping a stone into a tool by striking it.

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 ...

About 5,000 years ago, an ancient craftsman in modern-day central England picked up a piece of flint. Chipping away at the flint a tiny piece at a time, the Neolithic person “painstakingly” carved the ...