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- Basalt Pottery Anvil
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Basalt pottery anvil used as an aid in shaping ceramic vessels. Provenience unknown. Dimensions: 6 cm (H) x 8.5 cm (W) (2.36 x 3.35 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Bead Blank
Description: Diorite bead blank, grooved on four sides and bearing a small hole through one edge. Dimensions: 11 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Bifacial Oval Mano
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Bifacial oval mano. Dimensions: L 12.7, W 9.4, T 4.7 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 15, FLOOR. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Blocky Full-groove Maul
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Blocky full-groove vesicular basalt maul possibly manufactured from an exhausted mano. Dimensions: L 10.8, W 10.4, T 7.0 CM; groove average W 2.0, D 0.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 11, FLOOR CENTER. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Blocky Full-groove Maul, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Blocky full-groove vesicular basalt maul possibly manufactured from an exhausted mano. Dimensions: L 10.8, W 10.4, T 7.0 CM; groove average W 2.0, D 0.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 11, FLOOR CENTER. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Broken Axe/Maul
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Broken full-groove axe reused as a maul. An unknown organic substance is present on one side. Dimensions: L 9.4, W 8.1, T 4.7 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 10, FLOOR. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Broken Axe/Maul
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Broken full-groove axe reused as a maul. An unknown organic substance is present on one side. Dimensions: L 9.4, W 8.1, T 4.7 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 10, FLOOR. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Cobble Mano or Smoothing Stone
Description: Sandstone cobble mano or smoothing stone; if the latter, this tool may have been used for plastering work. Dimensions: 14.2 x 8 x 5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Cobble Tool
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Cobble tool described in the artifact catalog as a “paint grinder” with red paint on one surface. The artifact was also used as hammerstone, as evidenced by the battering on the end. Dimensions: L 8.8, W 7.3, T 5.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 18, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Cobble Tool, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Cobble tool described in the artifact catalog as a “paint grinder” with red paint on one surface. The artifact was also used as hammerstone, as evidenced by the battering on the end. Dimensions: L 8.8, W 7.3, T 5.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 18, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Cooking Slab
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Cooking slab (possible piki stone). Dimensions: L 24.4, W 19.7, T 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 6, UPPER FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Deep Trough Metate
Description: Vesicular basalt metate with a deep trough. Dimensions: 50.8 x 35.6 x 20.3 cm (outer); 50.8 x 23.5 x 10.2 cm (inner). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Deep Trough Metate
Description: Large, deep trough basalt metate and bifacial rectangular mano. Dimensions: 53.4 x 35.5 x 24.7 cm (metate; outer), 53.4 x 25.4 x 22.2 cm (metate; inner), 19.7 x 10.3 x 5.2 cm (mano). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - metate; catalog card - mano). - Diorite 3/4-groove Axe
Description: Single bit 3/4-groove axe made of diorite. The axe is polished, but rather coarsely, with fine polishing only at the tip of the blade. The blade tapers 2 cm on each side and to the poll. The widest part is a little above the center of the axe, and the poll is flattened slightly. Dimensions: L 26.4, W 7.4; Poll W 5.1, L 3.2; Groove W 2.2, D .4; Blade L 21 cm; Weight 3 lb 14 oz. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Double Bit Stone Axe
Description: Double bit, 3/4 groove stone axe. Dimensions: Approximately 12.25 cm long x 5.5 cm wide. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 254).