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- noun Plural form of
metate .
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Examples
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Of furniture I secured pieces of new hearth-stones; of other articles, broken "metates," part of a fine maul of stone, flint chips, celts, stone skin-scrapers, and, of course, painted pottery and obsidian.
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There are clay bean pots, stone metates for grinding the spices for savory salsas and machetes to clear the path through the woods.
Tianguis: itinerant traders in a traveling Mexican market 2009
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The artifacts include bowls, figurines, ceremonial metates, benches and other objects, mostly made of ceramic or stone.
ANCIENT ART: Brooklyn Museum SeeksTo Return Pre-Columbian Artifacts, But Thereââ¬â¢s A Catch Melinda Brocka 2011
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The artifacts include bowls, figurines, ceremonial metates, benches and other objects, mostly made of ceramic or stone.
ANCIENT ART: Brooklyn Museum SeeksTo Return Pre-Columbian Artifacts, But There’s A Catch Melinda Brocka 2011
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There are clay bean pots, stone metates for grinding the spices for savory salsas and machetes to clear the path through the woods.
Tianguis: itinerant traders in a traveling Mexican market 2009
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When electricity made the first Molino (grinding mill) possible, families that had been laboriously grinding ingredients on metates began going to the central part of the D.F. and selling their mole.
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When electricity made the first Molino (grinding mill) possible, families that had been laboriously grinding ingredients on metates began going to the central part of the D.F. and selling their mole.
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Rodolfo Parra, con ayuda de los estudiantes de Arqueología de la Universidad Veracruzana ha analizado el 40% de los artefactos recolectados durante el recorrido y han encontrado platos, metates, lijas y martillos.
Las cosas avanzan r��pidamente « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site 2009
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Algunos metates que serán analizados bajo la metodología de la cadena operatoria
El An��lisis Comienza « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site 2009
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Among the collection we have manos and metates, dishes, and hammers.
Things are Moving Really Fast « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site 2009
chained_bear commented on the word metates
"Mojave National Preserve has 1,600 documented archaeological sites, some dating to 10,000 B.C. Many of them have been stripped of their pottery, baskets, stone tools and metates, arrowheads and other artifacts."
—Mike Anton, "Team of lone rangers scours the new Wild West," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25, 2008
September 27, 2008