The authors suggest that the use of pressure flaking at Still Bay "helps define it as a time when novel ideas and techniques were rapidly introduced." Science , 2010. DOI: 10.1126/science.1195550 ...

Stone toolmakers living in southern Africa 75,000 years ago pushed the cutting edge in more ways than one. These intrepid folk sharpened the thin tips of heated stone spearheads using a forceful ...

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The annual Knap-In at Bald Eagle also features an atlatl competition. A precursor to the more accurate bow and arrow, an atlatl is a spear thrower consisting of a shaft with a cup or spur at the ...

By pressure flaking preheated replicas of the Blombos finds made from silcrete collected near the South African cave, Mourre was able to reproduce marks resembling those on the ancient artifacts.

Rast pressure-flakes a shard of obsidian to fashion it into an arrowhead. (CBC) But you can't hit the obsidian just anywhere — there's a bit of physics to it, Rast said.

Pressure flaking takes place when implements previously shaped by hard stone hammer strikes followed by softer strikes with wood or bone hammers are carefully trimmed on the edges by directly pressing ...

A highly skillful and delicate method of sharpening and retouching stone artifacts by prehistoric people appears to have been developed at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier ...

Ocala — Archaeologists and artists gathered at Silver River State Park over the weekend to demonstrate their prehistoric flint-knapping skills and showcase their artwork at the fourth annual ...

The new findings show that the technique, known as pressure flaking, took place at Blombos Cave in South Africa during the Middle Stone Age by anatomically modern humans and involved the heating ...

A lot of people are really into rocks and collecting pretty or unusual ones seem to be where it's at. Victoria Roper has people covered. She has hand harvested mahogany obsidian found in Malheur ...