- Name:
- Pestle (ground stone pounding tool)
- Description:
Artifact: Pestle (ground stone pounding tool)
Material: Coarse sandstone or quartzite
Manufacture: Pecked and ground stone tool with rounded pounding end
Dimensions: ~4–5 in tall (approximate from scale)
Function: Used for crushing nuts, seeds, or pigments in a mortar or grinding depression
Cultural Period: Archaic–Mississippian
Provenance: Found at stone grave, Millington Post, Meigs County, Tennessee
- Accession Number:
- 2024.1.199
- Prior Inventory Number:
- 611
- Collection:
- Sub Collection:
- Category:
- Anthropology
- Keywords:
- Pestle
- Object Size (LxWxH):
- 4" x 2.5" x 2.5"
- Type/Materials:
- Quartzite
- Origin Continent:
- North America
- Origin Country:
- United States
- Origin State/Province:
- TN
- Origin City/Town:
- Millington Post
