Description:

Native American, Midwestern United States, Archaic to early Woodlands period, ca. 6000 BCE to 500 CE. A hefty stone tool or nutting stone of a thick, discoidal form incised with vertical ridges around the periphery, a hemispherical indentation at the center, and a cross on the opposite side. The purpose of tools like this example is still debated, but it is probable they were used as lightweight and portable mortars, that could have been used to grind food - such as nuts- hence the name "nutting stone," as well as shaping or polishing other tools, or as friction fire starters. Cup stones have been discovered in human settlements on nearly every inhabited continent. Size: 6.3" Diameter x 4" H (16 cm x 10.2 cm)

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Provenance: private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000

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#187262

  • Condition: Some nicks and abrasions to surface as shown, but otherwise, intact and excellent. Old inventory number inscribed on one side.

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