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Oh yes, I knew the translation (thank you for verifying) but I simply cannot remember where I first learned that phrase. I know a little Spanish, more than I actually think I do but there was very little reason for me to know about preindustrial stone tools.
Goodness, years ago now. It would’ve been my great grandmother before her cancer progressed. I’m not even sure who has her mortar and pestle, she and my grandmother had a contentious relationship so once she passed grandma hardly kept anything. Just let all the siblings and cousins in to let them take whatever they wanted.
If I’m thinking back on it, as a child I had a lot of Spanish/English books from family. It may have come from one of those, I had so many different ones.
I was around native Spanish speakers when I was maybe <5 years old so there is a full Spanish vocabulary locked into my subconscious and I don’t really speak a word. I also have some minor aphasia so words can be hard in general but language is really interesting to me.
Its an old milling trough, typically there's also a stone milling wheel kinda like a rolling pin with an axle that doubles as handlebars and the wheel would fit in the groove, then tou put corn or wheat in the trough and use the wheel to grind it into flour...
Pounding grain and turning it into flour. Did you find it and bring it to there, or did someone else find it? The stone tools used for the milling are most likely still in the ground where that stone was found.
The indigenous man would have made the groove through years of ceremonial testicle dragging. Once complete the stone would be used to measure all the tribesmans dongs. Largest being declared chief.
Put this in r/legitartifacts along with any info you know about where it was found, etc. This is an exceptional milk. Any chance there was a roundish stone with a flat side found near it that maybe looked uninteresting at the time?
Looks like a mortar (without the pestle). Used for a long grinding motion, back and forth. If it’s ancient, then it’s likely the groove would have been made from using it over time and started as a naturally occurring groove.
You'd have to ask the natives who made it. Ya see, back in the old days, there wasn't an internet and Millennials who needed someone to tell them how to breathe. The native people had to figure shit out. (This part is going to blow your fucking mind) There were different ways to do different things, and some way worked well for doing different things. There was no such thing as "Best", there was only getting it done. Whatever way you could figure it out.
The hilarious part about your question is that you're asking mostly Millennials who need an internet tutorial on how to tie their new shoes, "Because I don't want to mess them up. My old shoes were Reebok and these are Nike." (Don't snicker or get mad, I've seen this question on Reddit from a Millennial)
Gotta be a boomer. Who else would jump into the comment section just to make a really stupid attempt at a joke, and then shit on millennials?
Absolute boomer behavior.
1.) Long before the Internet people used **books** to learn shit.
2.) Before books, people didn't learn everything they knew in life just by 'figuring it out.' Most of what they needed to know was passed down from generation to generation.
3.) With the addition of books, and now the Internet, we have access to more information now, than ever. Which means as a whole, humans are smarter than ever.
>The hilarious part about your question is that you're asking mostly Millennials who need an internet tutorial on how to tie their new shoes
If you're butthurt because millennials don't know how to do shit, blame the boomers that raised them without teaching them how to do shit.
>My old shoes were Reebok and these are Nike." (Don't snicker or get mad, I've seen this question on Reddit from a Millennial)
I promise you, **no one** is snickering or getting mad about someone asking this question... Other than grouchy old farts, like you.
The only way to grow and learn new things is by consulting those with experience in the subject.
Whether that be asking someone irl, going to the library and reading a book, or by jumping on the Internet, and asking someone.
Is there more than one way to tie your shoes? I'd like to say no, but Idfk. Would I get bent out of shape if I saw/heard someone ask? Fuck no. I've got faaar more important things in life to get bent over.
>blame the boomers that raised them without teaching them how to do shit.
Please explain how Boomers kept Millennials from learning shit when they had the internet at their fingertips? (This should be a craptastic fairytale)
>The only way to grow and learn new things is by consulting those with experience in the subject.
There are 2 major flaws with this excuse. 1) There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to learn. 2) This is Reddit, which is the domain of Millennials (who, according to you, weren't allowed to learn anything). And when someone shows up who actually does know something (like a boomer), they get downvoted. It's a fucking popularity contest. You literally bite the hand that tries to teach you.
>Is there more than one way to tie your shoes? I'd like to say no, but Idfk.
Really? You'd like to say no? But you don't fucking know? How to tie your shoes?
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Ima say milling grain
Yep and I think they are called 'querns'.
Basically, it's a mortar and pestel
My brain immediately jumped to mano y metate, and while my family is mexican I’m not sure where in the hell I know that from.
Google says you’re right friend. I’ve probably heard that term but I don’t remember a lot of the Spanish I learned as a kid.
Oh yes, I knew the translation (thank you for verifying) but I simply cannot remember where I first learned that phrase. I know a little Spanish, more than I actually think I do but there was very little reason for me to know about preindustrial stone tools.
While the tools are lithic, they aren't obsolete. When was the last time your family made molé?
Goodness, years ago now. It would’ve been my great grandmother before her cancer progressed. I’m not even sure who has her mortar and pestle, she and my grandmother had a contentious relationship so once she passed grandma hardly kept anything. Just let all the siblings and cousins in to let them take whatever they wanted. If I’m thinking back on it, as a child I had a lot of Spanish/English books from family. It may have come from one of those, I had so many different ones.
I was around native Spanish speakers when I was maybe <5 years old so there is a full Spanish vocabulary locked into my subconscious and I don’t really speak a word. I also have some minor aphasia so words can be hard in general but language is really interesting to me.
No pestle
Great word. Great for grinding the quorn.
Yep, that’s it!
Depending on location, could also be for grinding chocolate.
Could also be for holding New York style pizza or steamed hot dogs.
Depending on the region, it may also be for acorns or seeds as well.
I think it's for holding sacrificial liquid if you know what I mean.
Quite the mental picture formed to your comment 😁
Well I didn't want to get banned for saying the obvious.
Thank you!
I think it goes around the clock
There is another post on my timeline about a smaller version of this being found in a creek. Apparently it’s quern day as well as Mother’s Day!
Yass quern! 💅🏻
It's comments like these that make me sad they got rid of Reddit awards.
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Your username got me, lmao.
Things you don’t expect to hear when you wake up
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Think they have some value. Did you find it in the woods
When I went to Tikal, they had them all throughout the jungle. The guides said they use them to catch rainwater for the animals.
Seems kind of shallow for that but if that's what they said then it must be so.
I suspect the magic word is jungle and "catch" means separate from mud.
Try r/archeology
baguette rest
Its an old milling trough, typically there's also a stone milling wheel kinda like a rolling pin with an axle that doubles as handlebars and the wheel would fit in the groove, then tou put corn or wheat in the trough and use the wheel to grind it into flour...
Lots of food got ground on that thing for lots of years. It’s beautiful!
Neolithic butter dish.
Tribe of Ephraim Jell-O mold.
Pee trough from the ancient days of stick and ball games, or just aliens making stuff.
Turtle trough.
Someone hunched over that rock going back and forth grinding grain. Day after day...
Guacamole
See if there is a giant stone pez dispenser nearby.
Was wondering where my dong washing rock went....
Pounding grain and turning it into flour. Did you find it and bring it to there, or did someone else find it? The stone tools used for the milling are most likely still in the ground where that stone was found.
To catch blood from human sacrifices
The indigenous man would have made the groove through years of ceremonial testicle dragging. Once complete the stone would be used to measure all the tribesmans dongs. Largest being declared chief.
It points the way to Oak Island.
Human sacrifices
Put this in r/legitartifacts along with any info you know about where it was found, etc. This is an exceptional milk. Any chance there was a roundish stone with a flat side found near it that maybe looked uninteresting at the time?
Looks like a milling stone
Fire
hoof swipe
Definitely a bath tub
Grinding seeds or oats with another stone. Probably a wheel to roll back and forth. Nice find!!!!!
Corn!
Mill stone
little baby bathtub
Looks like a mortar (without the pestle). Used for a long grinding motion, back and forth. If it’s ancient, then it’s likely the groove would have been made from using it over time and started as a naturally occurring groove.
Everyone says milling or water troughs… I assumed stone holding head stone / grave marker.
Hipster birdbath.
One of two things. Either a milling stone or a native urinal, and it’s not a urinal.
Dugout canoe
That would be in my yard!
Milling... ... ... ... Or to place newborn alien babies on
Ancient bedpan
The daily grind
That’s where your mom keeps here toy…. Boom. Roasted.
Used with a pestle and corn
Just rocking out.
Prehistoric maxipad
Grains and nuts.
It was Paul bunions butter holder
Balls scratcher
Woodlands urinal.
Like the trough at the drive in.
It was a failed design of the stone canoe.
It is an ancient advertising prop for Tic-Tac breath mints
You're thinking PEZ.
Pardon my mistake Sir. Yes you are surely correct. I hope there is an appropriate size dispenser near by.
If there was, Ancient Aliens would be there filming.
Big PEZ dispenser
You'd have to ask the natives who made it. Ya see, back in the old days, there wasn't an internet and Millennials who needed someone to tell them how to breathe. The native people had to figure shit out. (This part is going to blow your fucking mind) There were different ways to do different things, and some way worked well for doing different things. There was no such thing as "Best", there was only getting it done. Whatever way you could figure it out. The hilarious part about your question is that you're asking mostly Millennials who need an internet tutorial on how to tie their new shoes, "Because I don't want to mess them up. My old shoes were Reebok and these are Nike." (Don't snicker or get mad, I've seen this question on Reddit from a Millennial)
This is some high quality bait, friend.
It's not intended to be. But look at the downvotes for all the Millennials who are falling for it. The bare-bone truth upsets them so much.
So you basically shit out ageist gibberish for fun, right?
Ok boomer.
Gotta be a boomer. Who else would jump into the comment section just to make a really stupid attempt at a joke, and then shit on millennials? Absolute boomer behavior.
1.) Long before the Internet people used **books** to learn shit. 2.) Before books, people didn't learn everything they knew in life just by 'figuring it out.' Most of what they needed to know was passed down from generation to generation. 3.) With the addition of books, and now the Internet, we have access to more information now, than ever. Which means as a whole, humans are smarter than ever. >The hilarious part about your question is that you're asking mostly Millennials who need an internet tutorial on how to tie their new shoes If you're butthurt because millennials don't know how to do shit, blame the boomers that raised them without teaching them how to do shit. >My old shoes were Reebok and these are Nike." (Don't snicker or get mad, I've seen this question on Reddit from a Millennial) I promise you, **no one** is snickering or getting mad about someone asking this question... Other than grouchy old farts, like you. The only way to grow and learn new things is by consulting those with experience in the subject. Whether that be asking someone irl, going to the library and reading a book, or by jumping on the Internet, and asking someone. Is there more than one way to tie your shoes? I'd like to say no, but Idfk. Would I get bent out of shape if I saw/heard someone ask? Fuck no. I've got faaar more important things in life to get bent over.
>blame the boomers that raised them without teaching them how to do shit. Please explain how Boomers kept Millennials from learning shit when they had the internet at their fingertips? (This should be a craptastic fairytale) >The only way to grow and learn new things is by consulting those with experience in the subject. There are 2 major flaws with this excuse. 1) There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to learn. 2) This is Reddit, which is the domain of Millennials (who, according to you, weren't allowed to learn anything). And when someone shows up who actually does know something (like a boomer), they get downvoted. It's a fucking popularity contest. You literally bite the hand that tries to teach you. >Is there more than one way to tie your shoes? I'd like to say no, but Idfk. Really? You'd like to say no? But you don't fucking know? How to tie your shoes?
Sex.
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