Grinding tools (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Grinding tools

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Grinding tools typical of ancestral Maya farmsteads include, from left, a metate fragment, a round stone and a mano fragment. Metates and manos were used to grind maize.

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