Flake tool

These tools were able to be made by this "chipping" away effect due to the natural characteristic of stone.

There are three steps to lithic reduction: Certain types of stone work better for creating flake tools than others.

Since these rocks are not composed of large quartz crystals, they often break as easily as glass and then make conchoidal fractures.

Conchoidal fracture describes the way in which materials break when they do not follow the natural planes of separation.

When the stone is struck, the blow from the strike is distributed onto the rock in an even fashion, giving the fracture a radial appearance.

This is the technological process of putting rock shards back together in their original shape in order to get a good idea of how the tool was created.