Decorated metates in prehispanic Lower Central America
Metates are stone objects on which corn and other substancesa re ground with hand-held stones called manos. Metates and manos have formed part of the standard household equipment in the Americas ever since settled life began to develop there in the 2nd millennium B. C. In Lower Central America - and...
Main Author: | Jones, Ursula |
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University College London (University of London)
1992
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505867 |
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