The hand axe is belonging to a core tool known as coup-de-poing family in French. This type of core tools is made from a nodule or a lump of stone struked of flaking from both the surfaces by applying the stone hammer technique. In the very beginning, to make a hand- axe primary flakes are extensively detouched from both sides of the nodule or pebble but later on secondary works are also done in order to make better shape as well as sharp cutting edge.

The different types of hand axes are:

(a) Pear shaped hand-axe: This type of hand axe resembles the shape of a pear for which it is known as pear shaped or pyriform hand axe. It is a short, heavy hand-axe with a rounded and sharp cutting edge. The buttend is thick, flaked or unflaked gradually sloping by tapering the two sides. Both primary and secondary falke scars are seen on both the surfaces of the tool.

(b) Ovate type hand-axe: The shape of this hand axe is look more or less like an oval as well as an egg for which it is called as an  ovate type hand axe. It is made on  a large flake or block of stone. This type of tool is thin and biconvex in profile. The working edge and the lateral borders continue in the form of a ridge. Secondary work is found all over the border. When it is seen in the profile the lateral border appears like an 'S' for which it is known as S- twist hand axe.

(c) Cordiform or heart type hand-axe: The shape of this type of hand axe is somewhat a heart shaped appearance, Comparatively this is a small, flat and almost heart shaped. So, this type of tool is known as cordiform shape.  The cutting edge is thin, sharp and almost straight. The buttend is thin, flat and rounded with a curved base line. Small flakes are detached from the border line of the tool. The buttend is broader than that of the thin, sharp working edge. This type of tool is used in the Mousterian time probably for cutting, scraping purpose.