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 by the Nahuatl term metlapil.
Manos were used in prehistoric times to process wild seeds, nuts, and other food, generally used with greater frequency in the Archaic period, when people became more reliant upon local wild plant food for their diet. Later, Manos and metates were used to process cultivated maize.
In its early use in the American Southwest, the mano and metate were used to grind wild plants. The mano began as a one-handed tool. Once the maize cultivation became more prevalent, the mano became a larger, two-handed tool that more efficiently ground food against an evolved basin or trough metate.
Besides food, Manos and metates were used to separate and pulverize clay from earthen debris and stones. The resulting clay was used for pottery-making.
A Mano, a smooth hand-held stone, is used against a metate, typically a large stone with a depression or bowl. The movement of the Mano against the metate consists of a circular, rocking or chopping grinding motion using one or both hands.
Ancient Pueblo People often set up work rooms, called mealing rooms, that were established with sets of manos and metates for mass grinding efforts.
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In archaeology, a grinding slab is a ground stone artifact generally used to grind plant materials into usable size, though some slabs were used to shape other ground stone artifacts. Some grinding stones are portable; others are not and, in fact, may be part of a stone outcropping. Grinding slabs used for plant processing typically acted as a coarse surface against which plant materials were ground using a portable hand stone, or mano ("hand" in Spanish). Variant grinding slabs are referred to as metates or querns, and have a ground-out bowl.
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 by the Nahuatl term metlapil. Manos were used in prehistoric times to process wild seeds, nuts, and other food, generally used with greater frequency in the Archaic period, when people became more reliant upon local wild plant food for their diet. Later, Manos and metates were used to process cultivated maize. In its early use in the American Southwest, the mano and metate were used to grind wild plants.
vignette|redresse=1.2|Métate, mano et maïs, , Chaco Canyon. vignette|redresse=1.2|Mano, métate et bol de maïs. Exposition de musée d'artefacts ancestraux de Pueblo au parc national de Mesa Verde. Un métate est une meule dormante de pierre, d'usage domestique, utilisée pour moudre des graines. Utilisée depuis plusieurs milliers d’années (depuis au moins ) dans l’aire culturelle de la Mésoamérique, son nom provient du nahuatl « metatl ».