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In many types the striking platform is almost at a right angle to the plane of the core. Various methods like ‘pressure flaking’ (Sankalia, 1964, pp 34-8), and indirect percussion have been suggested for detaching a series of blades by rotating a single core. The cores could be of a various shapes i.e., rectangular, pyramidal and prismatic etc.