Flintknapping is the ancient art of removing flakes from stone to produce stone tools and weapons, such as knives, arrowheads, and spear points.

Abo flintknapping is the term used to describe the oldest method of flintknapping using hammerstones and antler as percussion and pressure flaking tools.

The idea is to thin the stone blank as much as possible before pressure flaking the edges.

• UI Flintknapping
• Making a Survival Bow
• Basic Stone Tools
• Lithic Environment
• Ancient Ways

Choose a suitable stone for knapping. Flint is the best choice, but chert, and other sedimentary rocks can be knapped, as well as basalt, obsidian and some other "glasslike", minerals.

Select a stone that has few, if any, large cracks, fissures, or other irregularities which would likely cause it to break or flake off in undesirable ways.

Pick a stone large enough a similar in shape to the finished product you hope to produce. You may also wish to heat or water treat your stone, both techniques used successfully by experienced knappers, but difficult to go into in detail here.