A recent archaeological study has identified the earliest lithic heat treatment of chert in the world. Discovered in ...

Vila Nova de São Pedro, a fortified village located in the Azambuja region (Portugal), was during the Copper Age (between ...

A new study finds that the Clovis people, renowned for crafting tools from high-quality chert, also made rare projectile points and implements from difficult-to-work quartz crystal. Despite its ...

The earliest hunter-gatherers in the Americas were expert stone knappers, and fashioned a variety of tools and weapons out of ...

A paper published in the journal Quaternary International reveals a distinctive technological behavior at level TD10.2-BB of Gran Dolina (Atapuerca, Burgos), characterized by the almost exclusive use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHILLICOTHE — The Friends of Hopewell Culture will host Ed Moreland for a flintknapping program at the Hopewell Mound Group ...

Bob Briggs has been flintknapping for years, but his hobby dates back to the early days of humanity. Flintknapping is an ancient skill where craftsmen turn stones into sharp arrowheads, and thanks to ...

Want to learn flintknapping? What is it? It is mankind's first true technology, and it dates back 2.5 million years. Flintknapping is the art of creating stone tools, such as arrowheads and knives, by ...

S-1805 (Normanskill Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material. S-1805 (Normanskill Chert): Gravle pit west side of Rt. 9 W; North of Catskill, past the rocket sign.

L-1241 (Oil Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...