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Mano and Metate – Video (Arzigian)

MVAC Senior Research Associate Dr. Connie Arzigian describes manos and metates, grinding stones agricultural populations in North America would have used to prepare maize crops. She shows how Indigenous peoples would have used these tools and explains the patterns of grinding, polish, and other wear that tell archaeologists they were used to mill or crush materials like maize.

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