knap

The place had obviously been used to knap flint for a long time.

You were teaching one of them how to knap flint so he could make a life for himself.

On a visit there, he said, one can "see where the human inhabitants had knelt to knap the hand axes."

"I went down to the rocky bank by the river to knap a new axe and some other tools.

They think they used to just knap a new one pretty much any time they needed to do something."

It was easier to knap the flint at the site than to carry the heavy rocks back to the cave.

She had learned to knap flint by watching Droog and then practicing.

Billy had showed David how to knap flint and chert the week before, after seeing a filmstrip about it in class.

At the zoo they first attended a workshop devoted to learning how to knap rocks into blades and arrowheads.

This surprising and amusing development temporarily frustrated the archeologists, who have since tried to devise ways of getting Kanzi to knap instead.

After he had learned to knap the flint, and had developed a reputation for quality workmanship, he could trade his tools and points for anything he needed.

As a boy he took an interest in the Native American artifacts in the surrounding countryside and taught himself how to knap flint (make arrowheads and such from flint).

We always assumed it would be non-material contact, almost archaeological, digging through the electronic remains of a culture, signals broadcast before the human race had even learnt how to knap flints.

He showed me firemaking without matches, axes made of stone, cord twining and basket weaving, sinew and rawhide, and how to knap my own stone blade that cuts through leather as though it were butter.

After several years living with Dalanar and learning to knap flint, as well as honing some of the charm and charisma which his father had passed on to him (the two are physically almost identical), Jondalar returned to the Ninth Cave.