| 21. | The movement of the mano against the metate consists of a circular, rocking or chopping grinding motion using one or both hands.
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| 22. | The flying panel metate is believed to be the precursor to free standing sculptural figures more common later in the Atlantic watershed region.
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| 23. | A metate ( grinding stone ) weighing hundreds of pounds has been found at the sites which indicates large scale processing of corn meal.
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| 24. | Signs of early habitation by the Hohokam people have been found on Tempe Butte, including petroglyphs, pot shards, scrapers, and metate.
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| 25. | A mano, a smooth hand-held stone, is used against a metate, typically a large stone with a depression or bowl.
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| 26. | Worse, some techniques were time-consuming and laborious, even when a blender was substituted for a metate, the Mexican mortar and pestle.
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| 27. | When a Mexican woman has a well-seasoned metate, she is famous in the neighborhood, and the neighbors borrow it for special events.
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| 28. | They obtain their clay from communal lands, digging it up and doing all the processing by hand, even doing the grinding in a metate.
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| 29. | After being boiled with lime, softened maize kernels were ground with a tubular hand stone on a flat grinding stone ( metate ) into maize dough.
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| 30. | These new metate types might be rectangular with four legs like the jaguar effigy-head examples or might be round in shape with a pedestal base.
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