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The first picture is the stone bowls and pestles, and a couple of metate's that I don't have out in the yard, because I don't want them stolen. If anyone wants to see individual close-ups of these, let me know and I'll take the pictures. I didn't find any of the bowls, they all come from my family, and have been in our yard and on the porch for as long as I can remember. Most of them came from my grandmother, who collected such things clear back in the late 1800's. She was raised on a farm close to San Luis Obispo, CA, and pestles and bowls and such were plowed up in those days, so I'll state that it's a fairly educated guess that the bowls and pestles all came from the south central California coast. The Metates are a different story, as are the mano's. I worked on a cow outfit on the Carson River in Nevada for about a year. The ranch was about 8,000 acres of deeded land, located along the river out on the bed of a prehistoric lake. There wasn't a rock on the place large enough to kill a rattle snake. So when the gas company put a pipeline across the property, and some large rocks came up out of the ditch they were digging, I had to check them out. There were three metates that had been dug up, and I kept two and gave the third to the museum at Fort Churchill, which was a Civil War Post. I got no credit for the gift, the museum credits the University of Nevada for the gift. That ticks me off, but that's a different story. Anyhow, it wasn't very far to where I could drive the pickup, so I carried the metate's balanced on the horn of my saddle out to the pickup. At the same time I found the three metate's, I probably found 30 of the flat grinding stones that I think are called mano's, if I'm wrong, somebody correct me. I packed them all off, and have given most of them away.
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When I was in college, there was a young fellow that had a piece of property leased to pasture cattle, and a couple of us took our horses and helped him gather the place. I was right on the coast, and in fact it's now a state park, but at the time it was private property, and there was a midden right near the beach. I did a quick check, there was the black dirt, lots of shell and a few bones that I recognize as deer, and I picked up the deer bone pictured below.
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I thought it was interesting in that it looks like they broke it open for the marrow.
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I don't remember where I found the above charm or what ever it is, or even if I did find it. But if you look at the picture below, you will find that it has been broken right down the middle lengthwise.
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When I was rummaging around and moving things to take the photo of the bowls, I dug out this cigar box of broken chips and points, pictured below.
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And above are a few more broken and chips.
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When I was in college, there was a young fellow that had a piece of property leased to pasture cattle, and a couple of us took our horses and helped him gather the place. I was right on the coast, and in fact it's now a state park, but at the time it was private property, and there was a midden right near the beach. I did a quick check, there was the black dirt, lots of shell and a few bones that I recognize as deer, and I picked up the deer bone pictured below.
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I thought it was interesting in that it looks like they broke it open for the marrow.
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I don't remember where I found the above charm or what ever it is, or even if I did find it. But if you look at the picture below, you will find that it has been broken right down the middle lengthwise.
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When I was rummaging around and moving things to take the photo of the bowls, I dug out this cigar box of broken chips and points, pictured below.
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And above are a few more broken and chips.
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