Weber State Virtual History Museum

Mano and Metate

Title Native American Artifacts
Description Native American artifacts from northern Utah and adjacent regions reflecting various cultural traditions dating between ca. 11,500 BC and 1900 AD. These images are examples of basic artifact categories that are typical of western North American foraging and horticultural societies, such as chipped stone, ground stone, ceramic, bone skin, and textile industries.
Subject Indians of North America--Utah--Antiquities; Antiquities, Prehistoric--Utah
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date Digital 2014
Temporal Coverage 11500 BC - 1900 AD
Medium Photogrphay
Type Image/StillImage
Rights Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Weber State University.
Format image/jpeg
ARK ark:/87278/s6smc03z
Setname wsu_vhm
ID 98410
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6smc03z

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Title Mano and Metate
Contributors Image provided by Brooke Arkush, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Image Captions Shoshonean Tradition milling slab (metate) and hand stone (mano) from a rockshelter located within the Utah Test and Training Range in northern Utah. The metate is made of quartz arenite and the mano consists of some type of metamorphosed feldspar. Both were uncovered together at a depth of between about 30 and 40 cm. and date between about A.D 1400 and 1700. These ground stone implements most likely were used primarily to crush and grind small seeds into flour.
Description Native American artifacts from northern Utah and adjacent regions reflecting various cultural traditions dating between ca. 11,500 BC and 1900 AD. These images are examples of basic artifact categories that are typical of western North American foraging and horticultural societies, such as chipped stone, ground stone, ceramic, bone skin, and textile industries.
Subject Indians of North America--Utah--Antiquities
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date Original 300-1800 AD
Date Digital 2014
Spatial Coverage Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5549030, 39.25024, -111.75103
Type Image/StillImage
Rights Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Weber State University.
Source Hill Air Force Base, Utah
Format image/jpeg
Setname wsu_vhm
ID 98455
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6smc03z/98455