Innovations in stone knapping technology during the South African Middle Stone Age enabled the creation of early projectile weapons, according to a study. Innovations in stone knapping technology ...

But today there are few who continue to make or use sharp stone objects like knives, scrapers or spearheads using traditional stone knapping techniques. Archaeology student John Duggan hopes to help ...

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 ...

In the Indonesian island village of Langda, located on Irian Jaya near its border with Papua New Guinea, a half-dozen men sit in an open space, chipping fragments out of rocks. It’s not rocket science ...

It's easy to catch Claude Van Order napping. Make that knapping. Van Order, 62, has made a “profitable hobby” of the timeless art of flint knapping to create examples of early weapons, including stone ...

What do we know about the last hunter-gatherers who lived in West Africa? While these prehistoric populations have been extensively studied in Europe and Asia, their presence in this vast region — ...

Innovations in stone knapping technology during the South African Middle Stone Age enabled the creation of early projectile weapons, according to a study published April 26, 2017 in the open-access ...