WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a ...

Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...

A hunter stepped back in time when he decided to take on the challenge of harvesting an alligator with a stone age weapon known as an atlatl. "I've been kind of interested my entire life," said Ryan ...

MDC Educator Jordan Poe shows how to load an atlatl before throwing a dart at a target during a “Primitive Skills: Introduction to Atlatl” class.