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    Ruins of León Viejo is a World Heritage Site in Nicaragua. It was the original location of León. It is the present location of the town of Puerto Momotombo...
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    existence of higher and lower status social groups within Barriles. A large metate (grinding stone) whose border was adorned by tiny stone heads has also been...
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    Paso de Águila Copala (Paso de Águila), Río Humo, Río Lagarto, Río Metates [Río Metate], Río Santiago, Río Tejón, San Jorge Río Frijol, San Juan Copala...
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    residences for important personages. These have been named as the House of the Metates and the House of the Mestizas. South of the Osario Group is another small...
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    Milagro de Guadalupe (23 imprints), Corral de Queno (6 imprints), Rancho Viejo (1 drawing), Piedras Gordas (5 imprints), and finally Valle Seco (3 imprints)...
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    Sierra del Metate, whose characteristic is the formation of Peak Metate. At the edge of Mazatlán and Concordia runs the Sierra del Metate and Panuco....
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    at Pacbitun for the manufacture and trade of stonetools, e.g. manos and metates. Precipitation decreases from 98 inches (2,500 mm) per annum in the northwestern...
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    breads, ice cream and traditional cooking utensils such as comals and metates as well as traditional clothing. This market has a large food area that...
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    areas of Spain and Latin America. Examples include noche > nochi 'night', viejo > vieju. In Spain, this is mainly found in Galicia and other northern areas...
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    Martínez de Arriba, Melchor Ocampo, Meleros, Mesa del Venado, Mesteñas, Metates, Mimbrs, Montoros, Nuevo San Diego (El Caballo), Palos Colorados, Panales...
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  • from later periods at the site revealed fishtail point arrows, manos, and metates. Plant remains indicate that, before 3,000 years BCE, amaranth, cotton...
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    to the steles and smooth altars found at the sites of the Pelillo and Metates sites of the Costa Chica, Guerrero; as with the "barrigones" of Monte Alto...
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    type also found in Zaculeu and Mixco Viejo, both of which also had a Late Postclassic occupation. Three-legged metates (a kind of mortar) were frequently...
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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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    bows and arrows, finely sculpted greenstone axes, hammocks, manos and metates, pottery, and cane, all of which were traded across the southern Maya region...
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