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    A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds. In traditional Mesoamerican cultures...
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  • Look up metate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A metate is a Mesoamerican quern or milling-stone. Metate may also refer to: Metate (yearbook), the...
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    A mano (Spanish for hand) is a ground stone tool used with a metate to process or grind food by hand. It is also known as metlapil, a term derived from...
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    a metate to grind cocoa beans. Chocolate Museum, Bruges. Metate and mano from the Mayan period. Chocolate Museum, Bruges. Costa Rican funeral metate. Chocolate...
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  • students. The Golden Antlers publishes satirical content. Pomona's yearbook, Metate, was founded in 1894 and discontinued in 2012. The college's official magazine...
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    a contemporary indigenous kitchen with molcajete (stone mortar) and the metate in the foreground, comal, palm tenate, and a clay pot. San Juan Achiutla...
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    the cooking of food in ovens at ground level, grinding in molcajete and metate. With the Spaniards came the pork, beef and chicken meats; peppercorn, sugar...
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    unleavened dough for flat cakes by grinding with a handstone on a quern (metate). Quern stones were used in China at least 10,000 years ago to grind wheat...
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  • Concurrent MetateM is a multi-agent language in which each agent is programmed using a set of (augmented) temporal logic specifications of the behaviour...
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    Guancavilcas large rafts were in their black-colored vessels, hands and stone metate for grinding grains, spherical stone weights for nets and pointed to the...
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    milling station. A bedrock mortar should not be confused with a bedrock metate, which is a flat, trough-shaped depression often found with bedrock mortars...
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    contains garlic, onion, tomato, salt and oil, and is traditionally ground in a metate or molcajete. It is served to accompany tamales, tacos, mole or meats. It...
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    from the Aztecs the technique of processing cocoa beans through the use of metate; however, Modica chocolate uses sugar in addition to cocoa, an ingredient...
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    different sets of manos and metates would likely have been used to avoid getting other flavors in maize dough (masa). The metate is a stone slab that can...
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  • Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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  • Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    whorls Clay Loom weights Farming Hoes Antler, horn Ards Ground stones/metates and grinding slabs Stone Sickles Flint pieces inlaid into antler or wood...
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    by women using a mano (a cylinder-shaped stone like a rolling pin) and metate (a stone base with a slightly concave top for holding the corn). This method...
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    Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    unearthed at archaeological site in Israel Cupstone Dheki Dolly pot Makitra Metate Millstone Muddler Molcajete Oralu kallu Quern-stone Stone and muller Suribachi...
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    Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    the germ of the grain. In prehistoric times, Mesoamerican women used a metate quern to grind maize into cornmeal. After ceramic vessels were invented...
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    only two kilograms since it was made by hand grinding the ingredients on a metate. The arrival of electricity in the late 1940s made the use of a powered...
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    Bay Islands, Honduras and Boyle collection from Nicaragua, over 20 stone metates with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic ornamentation from Costa Rica, a group...
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  • Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    burned petate") is used to refer to the smell of marijuana. "Mujeres, pa'l metate y pa'l petate" ("Women, for kitchen and bed") is a machista saying that...
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  • Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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    Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Aşıklı Höyük Qesem cave Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pits Hunting Toolmaking Earliest...
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