Ancient Mortar and Pestle

[elkhound]

ancient mortar and pestle being used...cool factor is off the chain. for those dont know woniya was on alone season 6 tv show and came in 2nd place. skilled woman for sure. scroll with arrow to see all the pics.

 

[elkhound]

heres calories and fat...wish i could get photos to show in link like other forums.

 

[Neb]

heres calories and fat...wish i could get photos to show in link like other forums.

Did you try to...

Right click the image and choose save as...
Then when composing your post message use the image button and navigate to where you saved the image.

It looks like isntagram does not expose an option to copy the URL...

Ben

 

[elkhound]

instagram has some kind of 'block' so you cant copy picture and insert it even through a link. some forums it shows up as both picture and text.

 

[Peanut]

That is cool. stone tools are common around here, everyone has arrowheads, knives and spear points are more rare. I helped a friend sell part of her collection a few years ago. She had 2 small mortar and pestles and 4 pestles without the mortars.

 

[Weedygarden]

That is cool. stone tools are common around here, everyone has arrowheads, knives and spear points are more rare. I helped a friend sell part of her collection a few years ago. She had 2 small mortar and pestles and 4 pestles without the mortars.

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My great aunt told me to be careful about the tips of arrow heads and spear heads, that sometimes they had poison on them. I'm not sure that is true, but it is what she told me. There was a site that we went to as an eighth grade trip, and I found one arrow head.

 

[SheepDog]

Any poison on a cutting tip is likely inert after prolonged exposure to the elements. While it is true that some cutting tips incorporated some kind of fast working toxin, finding an arrowhead or spear point with functional poisons is about as likely as getting hit by an asteroid from Mars hitting you. It might be possible but so unlikely as to be just barely non-zero.

 

[VThillman]

The Anasazi left behind many broken stone mortars, mortars used to grind their maize for the flat-cakes that were the principle staple of their diet. Some of the stone was ground into the flour, baked into the cakes, and wore the enamel from their teeth, causing caries in nearly every mouth before they reached 30 y.o.

The pueblo life wasn't all fun&games, eh?