#grinding stone

[arthistoryanimalia]

#InternationalJaguarDay :

Jaguar Effigy Ceremonial Metate

Costa Rica, Pacific Watershed, c.300-700

Volcanic stone

On display at New Orleans Museum of Art (81.338)

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[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.

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Grinding stone dating back 2,700 years found in eastern Turkey

A 2700-year-old grinding stone dating back to the Urartian era has been found by a group of archaeologists in in Turkey's eastern Van province.

Excavations in an Urartian castle of Cavustepe revealed a 2,700 year-old stone used in grinding grain products in eastern Van's Gurpınar district.

The rectangular stone, measuring 54 by 30 centimeters (21 by 11 inches), was used through ages, Rafet Cavuşoğlu, the head of the excavation team and an archeology professor at Van's Yuzuncu Yil University, told Anadolu Agency.

"This is a stone people used to grind some grains like barley and wheat after adopting settled life," Cavuşoğlu said. 

It is the fourth stone discovered since the start of the excavations at the castle -- built by the Urartian King Sardur II in 750 B.C. -- in 2014, he added. Read more.

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My own photography… Carn Euny, Cornwall, England, UK.

[gilgai]

Grinding stone with grooves incised in rows across the concave side, n.d., from Douglas Seaton Collection (NMA)

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[arthistoryanimalia]

#InternationalJaguarDay :

Jaguar Metate

Las Mercedes, Costa Rica, c.1000-1400

Volcanic stone (andesite)

On display at Brooklyn Museum (34.5088)

“This metate, or grinding stone, was most likely a ceremonial object. The diamond-shaped relief carvings on the head and tail, and the circular designs on the legs probably represent the animal's spotted fur. Jaguars are frequently represented in Costa Rican objects. As fierce predators, they were revered and feared for their agility and strength. These qualities fit the animal's supernatural aspect as a deity of the underworld, darkness, and death.”