Anybody know about Native American artifacts?

[A. F Medic]

Large grinding mortar and pestle

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[WarPig1976]

Is it yours.?

[A. F Medic]

Yes. Got it in an auction. Know nothing about it. Probably will have to take it to a university. Weighs about 13 lbs!

Still has dark markings on the the pestle where the person held it......

[WarPig1976]

Yeah, probably your best bet. Wonder what they ground up maybe corn...

[jmoore]

Still in working order, I see. Get some dried corn and have at it! Have done so many years ago. The meal makes perfectly good cornbread, but with a little added gritiness.

[A. F Medic]

I will tell my squaw that she must do it! If I did, I would be ducking the pestle!

[Youngblood]

Large grinding mortar and pestle

Very nice.

Periodically when walking around the farm I will find a point, and once, what appears to be a hide scraper. Apparently, the locals did not have access to chert as all of the artifacts are made of milky quartz.

[A. F Medic]

Milky quartz points are beautiful. Ours up here are flint unless the Indian traded with another tribe for a quartz or obsisian point(s)
After a good rain, walk the plowed fields, as you know That is when the points show up. Something about holding 2 to 3 thousand year old history in your hand plus it is a work of art. We wish our firearms could talk! I wish the Indian points could also converse!

[seabot2]

How do you suppose they made the bowl? Grinding stone against stone? Must have taken a long time.

[A. F Medic]

From what I could find out. That is exactly what they did. From small paint grinding stones to massive boulders with several grinding holes in them! They polished stone objects by "pecking" at them with a harder stone till they got the shape they wanted and then polished with gravel and sand

Women did all the work. If the woman dies, the bowls were "killed" (destroyed) as they were her personal property. I think mine was to big to kill and just left. That is a guess