Very neat Kuger. I am not familiar with your area. Around here they were portable. It is good to learn and see new areas. I can see why that place would be inhabited for thousands of years. It gives me arrow head and gold fever all in one
I'm not sold on the mortar theory here. This has slight indication of being used as that. I'm not seeing it. Why are those mortars(correct term for this stone) not rounded? A mortar style pestle would be round making the mortar round. Some pestles have flat bottoms for grinding on a mano style stone. Again every angle of these photo's do not show grinding. Some were Bell pestles..... the key here is any pestle made for the type mortar you are presenting here would be round or flat if used for a mano. The holes have no sign of being ground as all imperfections in the stone are still showing. A ground surface even after thousands of years will remain smooth........Just not seeing anything on this......I'll provide proof of actual pieces that litter Anasazi country. You will see the difference then.
Indian Grinding Stones and Mortars
http://www.eugenecarsey.com/camp/alabamahills/grindingstones/grindingholes03matrix01.jpg
These are pictures of california grinding stones AKA: as mortars and I want you to notice on most of these pictures they are round.
Hope this helps. Always remain open to learning.
I seen the nuggets in your avatar, so it would be a safe guess that you have already looked for gold in that quartz. Is this in California?
very often they used "portable",ones here as well although they nevr took the "bowl"...or "mortar",if you will with them.They did take the pestle.They would over turn them so didnt collect water,freeze and break.They were left in historic Black oak groves that they returned to yearly.Most of those have been picked up(my family happens to have over 100......but occasionally one may still be found
As a side bar, I know of 2 major Native American heiroglyphic on boulders adjacent to 2 of 4 grinding rocks near my cabin...will post pictures when I find them...
Just thought that this was not the usual situation...
Maybe Kuger and others have similar conditions...
I use them as stepping stones in the yard. We used to not hump them out as they were to heavy to climb with. If you took one you are loaded down. Later we started to carry out the double cupped ones. I have a few but not that many. Am packing my gear for a bow hunt in the morn.
I use them as stepping stones in the yard. We used to not hump them out as they were to heavy to climb with. If you took one you are loaded down. Later we started to carry out the double cupped ones. I have a few but not that many. Am packing my gear for a bow hunt in the morn.
If you want to learn,listen to me................................I can show you these that are over a foot deep,and bowls that have the bottoms worn through,as said,I aint no young kid
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