MObushwhacker
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Mescal pits were used for making an eatable food product by the Mescalero Apaches that once inhabited New Mexico. These pits were lined with rocks then heated and used to roast the eatable mescal cactus, a very popular food to the early Indian of the area. There are thousands of these pits scatter throughout the desert southwest. Some can be 30 feed wide and are recognizable by the scatter burnt rocks and a burnt dark depression in the ground.
Also near bye the grinding hole, deeply wore in the bedrock were use to grind acorns and the baked cactus, before mixing drying and storage. These pictures were taken in the Guadalupe mountains just a few mile west of Carlsbad NM were they are very common.
Artifacts are very rare here because of the species of snowbirds that migrate here during the winter months. They have a tendency to pick up everything
That might look like an artifact and take it back when they migrate back north during the summer months. Much like the common N.M. packrat but that, another story and I do not have any pictures of that critter.
Also near bye the grinding hole, deeply wore in the bedrock were use to grind acorns and the baked cactus, before mixing drying and storage. These pictures were taken in the Guadalupe mountains just a few mile west of Carlsbad NM were they are very common.
Artifacts are very rare here because of the species of snowbirds that migrate here during the winter months. They have a tendency to pick up everything
That might look like an artifact and take it back when they migrate back north during the summer months. Much like the common N.M. packrat but that, another story and I do not have any pictures of that critter.
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