Researchers are looking at flint flakes to study laterality in Palaeolithic humans, in other words, which hand they used to fashion their artefacts. Laterality is the preference of human beings for ...

RED RIVER GORGE — On a flat, grassy piece of land beside the Red River, a man sat in the shade, striking a piece of wood against a rock, slowly shaping a rough piece of flint into a spear point.

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 ...

Stone tool manufacture and use are considered key adaptations in human evolution. The understanding of the biomechanical features and anatomical constraints of hominins during stone tool production ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Sycamore Shoals State Park in Elizabethton is playing host to a class to learn about a pre-historic skill On Saturday, a group hosted what's known as a "knap-in". Knapping is the ...

FAIRFIELD, Pa. — A basic flint knapping class is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve, 1537 Mount Hope Road, Fairfield. The class will cover the basic theory ...

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 ...

Laterality is the preference of human beings for one side of our bodies; being left-handed or right-handed, for example, or having a preference for using one eye or ear or the other. In the view of ...