Along a gravel road to the north of its namesake, the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry (or Wanhi Yukan as its known in the Dakota ...

This past Saturday, the first public tours were given at the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry Preserve and Wanhi Yukan Trail. The ...

In Ohio, the spectacularly multicolored Flint Ridge flint was preferred by the Middle Woodland societies who periodically gathered at the various large Hopewell earthworks between about AD 1 and 400.

Vanport Chert, also known as Flint Ridge (OH), is smooth chert. It is every natural color and countless combinations, but black in uncommon. Thermal alteration does not produce the color green.

Archaeologists reveal method used by ancient humans to hunt mighty mammoths to extinction - Prehistoric hunters used stone-tipped spears as pikes to kill charging mammoths and mastodons ...

S-1805 (Normanskill Chert): Gravle pit west side of Rt. 9 W; North of Catskill, past the rocket sign. Normanskill Chert is also known as Coxsackie, Deepkill, Flately Brook Flint, Hudson, River, Mt.

The team found that 47% of the flint disks were, indeed, made from varieties of Ste. Genevieve chert, but it came from sources in central Tennessee as well as from southeastern Indiana.

It’s important to note that the “flint rock” you find is unlikely to be actual flint or a rock — it’ll probably be some other hard mineral, such as quartz, chert, or agate.

Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont will host an informal “knap-in” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 18-19 with naturalists Kristina Parkison and Francis Mendoza. No, this isn’t a group ...

The process starts with a large chunk of chert or flint (bottom center). That rock is chipped into smaller pieces (right and top), and these are finally shaped into finished points (left).

This is a pristine flint blade made from chert of the Upper Chalk of the North Downs. I found this flint knife while running in a race. It was exposed by rain. I stopped to pick it up.