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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On the morning of July 9, 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Since then, conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies has supposed that ...

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 ...

Scientists found the oldest known elephant bone tool in Europe at a site in the United Kingdom where elephant remains are scarce. The 500,000-year-old tool was used for knapping, or breaking flint and ...

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 ...