Adams site flintknappers made a variety of stone tools: end- or side-scrapers, bifaces, spears, and prismatic blades (long, narrow, specialized tools with sharp parallel edges, like a small razor blade). In fact, Adams is one of the best sites in eastern North America for documenting the importance of blade manufacture.
Blade cores also were recovered from the site. They had to be conical- or bullet-shaped, and prepared carefully, in order to make blades that were narrow and long. Examples of exhausted (used up) cores also were found at Adams.
When flintknappers shaped raw chert nodules for blade removal, they generated a great deal of coarse debris. But they did not waste it. They adapted the debris, making scrapers or fluted spear points and unfluted ovate bifaces for use as knives.
These tools were socketed (mounted) into wood, bone, antler, and ivory handles. Making these handles likely took as much or more time to make than the stone tools themselves. Even more effort was needed to find and make cements and binding materials to hold the stone tools in place.