#metate

[artifacts-archive]

Ceremonial Grinding Table (Metate)

Nicoya, 1–500 CE

[uwlmvac]

This might look like just a big rock, but it's actually a metate, or grinding stone. The waterworn, basalt-like rock could have come from glacial outwash. How can we tell it's a metate? The surface is broad, flat, and smoothed from being rubbed with a handheld stone (mano). The drawing shows a well-worn metate and mano, which would have been used for grinding corn or other materials. The metate in the photo is about 400-700 years old and was found at a precontact Oneota site in Onalaska, Wisconsin. The site had been stripped by heavy equipment that left light-colored, nearly parallel scrapes across the stone's surface. The darker, broken places at both ends represent much older damage. For more information on these important tools, watch MVAC's "Mano and Metate" video at https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/past-cultures/artifacts/?letter=m&term=164812.

[mikes81vw]

Metate

[bobbydellmusic]

¿Dónde Está el Espíritu del Cacao?

Quiero compartir con ustedes mi última publicación sobre el fascinante mundo del cacao. En este artículo exploro la rica historia y las tradiciones culturales que rodean al cacao, desde las antiguas prácticas mayas hasta las técnicas culinarias de India.

[anarchistdoll]

Epic Corn Tortilla W

Ayo baybee, are you corn on a Metate? Cause Im gonna grind you.

[kayespencer]

Cellpic Sunday 6/25/2023 Flat Mortar Stone #cellpic

This big chunk of sandstone rock is a grain grinding stone once used by Native Americans. It is also known as a metate and flat mortar stone. The three smaller rocks are grinder stones. The dimensions of the grindstone is roughly 18″ x 18″ x 4″. The grinding stone was given to my dad many, many years ago. I don’t know who gave it him, and I don’t know its original location. One of the grinder…

[fernandadenize]

#metate (at Vancouver, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZJ-PEO6io/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[crow-eyed]

TTK how the fuck do I visualize you

behold all the metallic accents that don't show up well in photos

[janus-wants-to-stargaze]

Hey folks tell me your favorite piece of obscure lancer lore. let me start The Aun have the ability to just walk from planet to planet with what are called firmament halls(mostly the core worlds) so very often people live and work on two separate planets

[aunic-ascendancy-official]

so i should really introduce myself for you all name wise you can preacher I know it’s not a really a name more just what I do technically my civilian job since I work for the Harvesters and Sowers I was actually educated at one of the provincial colleges lady Inshadin will forever mean a great deal to me

[horus-unofficial]

*points gun at pegasus* WHATS YOUR RELATION WITH DEIMOS? TELL ME THE SECRET NAME OF RA OR THE PUPPY GETS IT

thats like asking the albatross what their relationship to the voladores is cos theyre both mysterious cosmopolitan cultures that make frequent use of nearlight travel

[artifacts-archive]

Ceremonial Grinding Table (Metate) in the Form of a Feline

Nicoya, 500–1000 CE

In Central America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, flat stone grinders (metates) were used to prepare cornmeal and corn dough for cooking. Sculptors in ancient Costa Rica developed elaborate metate forms as symbols of sustenance; large, finely carved examples often feature effigies as emblems of a ruler or religious official. Metates have been discovered in burials, where they served as biers for deceased leaders, but they were probably primarily intended as throne-like seats for chieftains, thereby linking rulers’ political power to their obligation to ensure abundant harvests to sustain their communities.

[mitsdriveswhere]

Took the chance to visit Boca Negra Canyon in Petroglyph National Monument once more. Truly a beautiful place and awesome to return to it with the eyes of knowing what to look for, including spotting metate in the rocks (not pictured here, I just thought the flowers were neat).

[bumblebeeappletree]

Indigenous women in Mexico still make mole sauce using ancient tools like the metate grinding stone. We visit chef Evangelina Aquino Luis of Nana Vira in Oaxaca to see how she makes her chichilo mole for funerals.

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[arcanicsnake]

and of course dragon age babies that no one else will care about

self indulgent

[jmpphoto]

Metate Arch View by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Metate Arch View Devil’s Garden Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Escalante, Utah April 2023