Having access only to soft limestone, most of the tools fashioned by Native Americans in the region were made of shell, bone, wood, and animal teeth; shark teeth were used as cutting blades, and sharpened reeds became arrows and spears.

Eventually they came up with additional skull pieces, the partial jawbone, the vital teeth, a few remnants of prehistoric animals and an ancient tool fashioned from bone.

To the Editor: Re "A Debate on Allowable Lies" (editorial, Oct. 6): The law is a tool fashioned by man to achieve his purposes.

He opened this wide on the floor, revealing small tools fashioned of the same metal as the Iftin swords, intended for working in wood.

Primitive tools fashioned out of rocks and bone were excavated at and around Olduvai's Bed I, sometimes called the FLK Zinjanthropus site since the finding of OH 5.

While far out at sea on the night of Christmas Eve, the submarine's pharmacist's mate, PM1 Thomas Moore, performed a successful emergency appendectomy on FM2 George Platter, using ether as anaesthesia and using rudimentary tools primarily fashioned from kitchen utensils.

The lower strata of this bistratified settlement located at the present-day Zaisan Memorial revealed tools and materials fashioned according to the Levallois technique.

They have assistants who help them separate the bony halves, and they use a variety of sophisticated instruments to widen the field, every tool fashioned of gleaming stainless steel.

One asks whether we are now seeing tools being fashioned which by some future, perhaps less scrupulous, Government may be used to weaken the independent administration of justice and so undermine the rule of law.