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WUPATKI PUEBLO: A STUDY IN CULTURAL FUSION AND ...

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points out that metates were probably used for more purposes<br />

than grinding com, and they are not always found in all<br />

areas In -which corn was grown# It is not safe to state the<br />

presenoe of corn on the basis of metates alone (Woodbury<br />

195*M 60).<br />

Dlstri"taution,, Metates have been found in virtually<br />

every site in the prehistoric Southwest; a complete list wouild<br />

take many pages. It Is clear that flat-slab metates are late<br />

In date and are a northern Pueblo type, although they do not<br />

appear In the Chaco (Judd 195^: 136). The troughed metate<br />

has a long history, starting at least by 500, and its intro­<br />

duction to the Sinagua seems to have taken place after<br />

600-700. During the late Pueblo II period In the Flagstaff<br />

region, Mc.Gregor (1936: 36) indicates that both full-troughed<br />

and single-troughed metates were found, full-troughed being<br />

the most common. Bartlett- (193*** 5-H) however, notes only<br />

full-troughed specimens for the same period. At Winona and<br />

Ridge ruins, full-troughed metates were the common variety,<br />

although a few flat-slab and single-troughed specimens were<br />

also found (Mc.Gregor 19*KL; 168-170). At the Piper Site,<br />

only full-troughed metates were reported (Bliss 1956: 122),<br />

while at Nalakihu, King (19^9: 8*0 found six full-troughed<br />

and three flat-slab metates, and at the Big Hawk Valley sites,<br />

Smith (1952a: 112) notes nine full-troughed metates, nine<br />

single-troughed metates, and four flat-slab metates. Thus<br />

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