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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MAKANDA — About 20 people got in touch with their primitive sides during a workshop Saturday at Touch of Nature Envi-ronmental Center’s Upper 40 Cabin. Participants in The Art of Flintknapping ...
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 ...
TO fashion a flint implement both knowledge of the tricks of the trade and skill in execution are required. Watching the flint knappers at Brandon can teach the student many a 'wrinkle', but any ...
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 ...