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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WAPAKONETA — Wapakoneta native Adam Chanthasit performed a flint knapping demonstration at Homeless Books on Feb. 22. Knapping is ...

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 ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, which in turn played a large role in increasing human brain size and ...

The Palaeolithic archaeological record in Britain captures a rather sudden increase in stone knapping skills around half a million years ago, indicating that a major milestone in human evolution may ...

Our ancestors were making stone tools some 700,000 years earlier than we thought, say archaeologists who have found the earliest stone artifacts, dating 3.3 million years ago. Our ancestors were ...

Excavating stone artifacts that date from 3.3 million years ago in Kenya. MPK-WTAP, CC BY-NC-ND On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in ...