While searching a construction area in Altenberge, Germany, amateur archaeologists just happened upon a rare blade from the Bronze Age. Made of flint and dating back a whopping 4,500 years, the blade ...

The Pitt Rivers Museum authorities at Oxford have recently issued their first Occasional Paper on Technology, and it is entitled "The Manufacture of a Flint Arrowhead by Quartzite Hammer-stone"*.

Flint varies in color and ability to be chipped based on area it's from and if it's heat treated. COSHOCTON − People attending the Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In said they come in for two main ...

Chipping away at the flint a tiny piece at a time, the Neolithic person “painstakingly” carved the piece into an arrowhead. Now, that arrowhead was just discovered.

Kevin Gwinner of Willard talks about putting some finer touches on an arrowhead he was making at the Coshocton Flint Festival.

A flint arrowhead from the Neolithic, or New Stone Age. (Image credit: Walter Geiersperger via Getty Images) Iron oxidizes very easily when it's exposed to the air, but the process usually happens ...