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A bedrock mortar (BRM) is an anthropogenic circular depression in a rock outcrop or naturally occurring slab, used by people in the past for grinding of grain, acorns or other food products. [1] There are often a cluster of a considerable number of such holes in proximity indicating that people gathered in groups to conduct food grinding in ...
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.
Two items commonly used by indigenous Mexicans. The mortar is called a Metate and the stone lying across it a Mano. It is held in both hands and used to grind corn, cacao and other basic foods. The three most popular iconographic elements of ceremonial metate seem to be saurian, bird, and jaguar creatures. Monkeys are also common.
Archaeological evidence shows settlement as early as 1350, and bedrock mortar sites and pictographs remain. [2] The Native Americans mostly used this site in the winter months. In 1860, Hale Tharp and his brother-in-law, John Swanson, were exploring the Giant Forest when Swanson sustained an injury to his leg.
[3] The Tolenas springs were used by the Patwin people and their Paleo-Indian predecessors; there are a number of bedrock mortars and rock cupules at the site that serve as evidence of their past presence. [4] An account recorded in 1963 had it that "Indians camped up there in the early days. Because it was high up, they escaped the winter floods.
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A bedrock mortar at a village site along a tributary to Las Trampas Creek, Tice Creek. This village was the site of a major archaeological dig. (August 10th, 2022) The human history of the Las Trampas Creek watershed began thousands of years ago when groups of Paleo-Indians made their way into the Bay Area. Some of the earliest evidence of ...
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