It's several times sharper than surgical steel and has an iridescent beauty that masks its use as a deadly tool. It's obsidian — a hard, dark volcanic glass used for thousands of years by American ...

A practice that dates back to prehistoric ages has been heralded as an annual family friendly event that attendees of all ages can enjoy in Water Creek. Knapping, which is a technique used to shape ...

An event bolstered by the Iowa State Archaeological and the Hawkeye Archaeological societies teaches participants the ancient art of creating tools and weapons.On Sunday, 16 registered craftsmen, ...

At last year’s Knap-In, I held a throwing stick like the one Native Americans used thousands of years ago. The stick was thin and light, notched at one end to hold the end of a small spear. When you ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A group at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo is continuing the tradition of flint knapping. Donald Cameron with Panhandle Flint Knappers says around 2007, he ran into a man out ...

Harlan Mauch spent two summers during the late 1990s searching the prairie for arrowheads. Frustrated by his failure to find a single point, Mauch started learning to make his own. Gradually he began ...

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 ...

Arkansas is in the midst of a legal showdown with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) over Act 624, a law that would ban PBMs from owning pharmacies in the state. Black Santa of Arkansas spreads joy and ...