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

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 ...

At quarries, ancient American Indian cultures replenished their tool kits and reestablished a relationship with an important raw material.

It has been a long time coming, but on Saturday those behind the development of the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry Preserve and Wanhi Yukan Trail can celebrate the finish line. Saturday was the first day ...

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

L-530 (Vanport Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Collection includes raw material, modern flint-knappers' work, heat-treated specimens. L-530 (Vanport Chert) Vanport Chert, also known as Flint ...

Normanskill Chert is also known as Coxsackie, Deepkill, Flately Brook Flint, Hudson, River, Mt. Merino, Pleasantdale, or Pleasantville. It is a greenish, shades of green to opaque black chert.

All the routes roll through farmland and an 'extremely remote area' of the Flint Hills region using an extensive network of dirt roads strewn with a crystalized, sharp-edged rock called chert, or ...

Flint-knapping is equal parts art and science, which I learned firsthand as Eren guided me while making a Stone Age hand axe out of the random chunks of chert Eren keeps in buckets in his lab.

Sedimentary rock "chert" records cooling of the Earth over billions of years Research team analyses oxygen isotopes in 550 million-year-old samples Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Göttingen ...