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Definition of Metates
1. metate [n] - See also: metate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metates
Literary usage of Metates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"OBJECTS OF STONE Manos and metates.—metates were not found in any of the ...
The dearth of metates is probably to be accounted for by the rarity in the ..."
2. The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature (1820)
"But all persons may be distinguished either by their actual conformity to the
gospel, by dispositions congenial with its metates, or by their propensities ..."
3. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"The metates of middle America are often elaborate in shape, ... The surfaces of
the metates, as well as of the mullers, are of different textures, ..."
4. The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1907)
"They have the same form and are made of the same material as metates, ...
Identical metates occur in Arizona ruins and were in use among the ancient pueblos ..."
5. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"metates.—The traffic in ancient mealing stones by those inhabiting Chiriqui ...
We have more definite knowledge of the disposition of metates in the ancient ..."
6. Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1892)
"decide whether Los metates was one of them. From the statement that both the ...
Before reaching Los metates, the valley of Las Escobas has to be traversed. ..."
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