A large stone with a broad trough or groove, used with a mano to grind dried corn or other plant foods.
a groove worn into flat rock surface by the actions of early American Indian's grinding nuts and grains between stones
a large stone slab on which the items to be ground are placed
a piece of stone carved to be square, and slightly curved, and is used to hold corn as it is ground with another stone called a mano
a rough stone slab used to grind mostly seeds and nuts and
A shaped stone slab used as a base upon which grains, nuts, seeds, and mineral pigments were ground with a mano
The lower part of a tool used for grinding corn and other grains. The grain sits on the metate, and is ground by the mano rolling over it.
The concave curved stone slab used by the Aztecs to grind shelled cacao beans to paste. The same method was used in Europe until the late nineteenth century.
(Meh-TAH-tay) Spanish from Indian A concave grinding stone used for grinding corn.
(Meh-TAH-teh) Spanish from Aztec A large grinding stone.
A portable stone slab upon which seeds and other grains are milled with a mano (worked with a push-pull motion).
A rectangular stone grinding bowl
1. A common New World term for ground-stone basins used to process grains (Ashmore and Sharer 2000: 251). 2. The large milling slab (or trough) on which vegetable matter is placed and then ground up by the motion of a mano (Cassells 1997:337).
a stone or volcanic slab used for grinding corn or wheat
A metate is a stone tool used for processing grain and seeds. In traditional Mesoamerican culture, women grind calcified corn on the metate in order to make tortillas.