Tools for Making Tools Ancient toolmakers as well as present-day makers of stone tools used various tools to achieve different effects. The variety of tools combined with the varied ways a tool might be applied suggests the degree of complexity involved in lithic tool manufacture. Core Tools Cores are nodules or material from which flakes are struck. Simple pebbles were worked either unifacially or bifacially to create very simple cutting tools. Begin as early as the very end of the Lower Paleolithic.
Cores are prepared in such a way as to produce flakes or blades of standardized, predetermined form.
We can differentiate between several different types. These include so-called Tortoise and discoidal Cores. Taking off flakes utilizing a rod and applying pressure. Permits very fine workmanship. Tools which were ground into shape rather than flaked into the desired form.