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  2. Mano (stone) - Wikipedia

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    In its early use in the American Southwest, the mano and metate were used to grind wild plants. The mano began as a one-handed tool. The mano began as a one-handed tool. Once the maize cultivation became more prevalent, the mano became a larger, two-handed tool that more efficiently ground food against an evolved basin or trough metate.

  3. Bird stone - Wikipedia

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    A new theory recently arising from an amateur archaeologist focused on Native American fiber processing, is the bird stone was a tool used for mat-making and weaving. [citation needed] Many stones have been found near waterways and swamp areas where reeds grow, these areas being where materials for mat-making were collected and processed. The ...

  4. Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is a California State Park, preserving an outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes—the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, 8 miles (13 km) east of Jackson.

  5. Omarolluk - Wikipedia

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    There is uncertainty on how to translate the proper name Omarolluk (and omar rocks). According to the records of the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Natural Resources, the features Omarolluk Sound and Omarolluk Formation were named after Omarolluk, an Inuit man who accompanied and guided R. J. Flaherty on numerous geological surveys of the Belcher Islands and elsewhere in the ...

  6. Mogollon culture - Wikipedia

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    Mogollon culture (/ ˌ m oʊ ɡ ə ˈ j oʊ n /) [1] is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas. The northern part of this region is Oasisamerica, [2] [3] [4] while the southern span of the Mogollon culture is known as Aridoamerica. [5]

  7. Petroform - Wikipedia

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    Petroforms in North America were originally made by various Native American and First Nation tribes, who used various terms to describe them. Petroforms can also include a rock cairn or inukshuk , an upright monolith slab, a medicine wheel , a fire pit , a desert kite , sculpted boulders, or simply rocks lined up or stacked for various reasons.

  8. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Glazes are seldom used by indigenous American ceramic artists. Grease can be rubbed onto the pot as well. [2] Prior to contact, pottery was usually open-air fired or pit fired; precontact Indigenous peoples of Mexico used kilns extensively. Today many Native American ceramic artists use kilns. In pit-firing, the pot is placed in a shallow pit ...

  9. Prehistoric agriculture in the Southwestern United States

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    A map of the pre-historic cultures of the American Southwest ca 1200 CE. Several Hohokam settlements are shown. The agricultural practices of the Native Americans inhabiting the American Southwest, which includes the states of Arizona and New Mexico plus portions of surrounding states and neighboring Mexico, are influenced by the low levels of precipitation in the region.