These highly shaped tools described to the right are hand pecked from a matched type of igneous rock.   They are also sized to fit and work with each other.

Item #GT001C:   $400.00

 

These mortars are bowl shaped tools which are hand pecked from a variety of igneous rock, generally vesicular basalt.   The high price is a reflection of the amount of time and effort put into the traditional manufacture process of pecking.   They are medium sized, averaging one foot in diameter and height and about one hundred pounds in weight.   If you have any specific requests, please note them in the comment section of the shopping cart.

These highly shaped cylindrical tools are hand pecked from igneous rock.   They are sized to fit the available Mortars, being a little under a foot long.

The Paint Mortar and Pestle are the smaller, more economical, and easier to transport version of these highly shaped tools which are partially hand pecked from a matched type of rock.   This artifact was often used to crush herbs, smaller items, and paint pigments (hence the name).   They are sized to fit each other.   The mortar averages under a 1/2 foot in width.

Item #GT001D:   $70.00

These metates are hand pecked slabs which can be any of a wide variety of rock types.   They are full size, averaging under two feet in length.   You can order between one of three material types and three basic varieties.   If you have any more specific requests, please note them in the comment section of the shopping cart.

These smaller tools are hand pecked from from any of a wide variety of rock types.   They are roughly rectangular in shape with two flattened sides.   They are sized to fit the available Metates.

A relatively thin stone with a slight depression at the center of one side.   A bottomless basket was attached by some adhesive, like asphaltum, around this depression so that it provides the solid base to this portable mortar.   This replication comes minus the basket.

A rectangular sandstone or scoria two-part tool with an internal groove into which the arrowshaft is placed.   The two parts are then held closed as the arrowshaft is moved in a back-n-forth twisting motion in order to sand it smooth.

A rounded oval soapstone tool with two external grooves on one side.   The tool is placed in the fire to get it hot, then tongs are used to remove the straightner.   The arrowshaft is placed in the gooves after the shaft is either wetted or greased.   Pressure is placed on the shaft to either side of the tool - attempting to slowly straighten out a bend in the shaft by applying pressure opposite the bend.

These items are carved out of soapstone (steatite).   This is a very soft rock that has been used through out human history to make artifacts.   The lamp is a replica of one of the many archaeologically found lamp forms that have been used as a repository of animal fat in which a wick is placed.   The soapstone artifact replica available here is a very small bowl, averaging between two to three inches in diameter.

Stone Rings have been found in many archaeological contexts.   One interpretation of their use is as digging stick weights.   Many have been found in burials.   This replica is approximately four to five inches in diameter.   They are made of a wide variety of materials.

This artifact is a basically axe shaped piece of CCS.   It is first percussion knapped into a rough shape and then laboriously ground into its final smoothed form.   It has a depression around the thicker end for placement into a handle.   Based after a traditional type of axe head found in Arizona and California as well as many other regions.

A hammerstone is an item used to shapen a stone tool.   Offered here are ones that have been used to create the other tools being sold here.   The first type was used in the percussion reduction of the flaked materials.   The usage patterns are visible by the faceting of the surface area.   The other are Quartzite hammerstones that were used to shape groundstone tools.   One side of the original quarzite cobble was broken off to create a beveled working edge.   As the tool was used, more flakes were broken off this edge to resharpen it.

Knife blades and projectile points were also manufactured by the process of grinding lithic materials such as slate.   The production of such tools was much more time intensive but the resulting edge was often much more durable than the flakable materials.   Such tools were found all along the west coast of North America.