Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet METATE

Definition av METATE

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• In early Maya civilizations the process of nixtamalization was distinctive in that hard, ripe kernels of maize (corn) were boiled in water and lime, thus producing nixtamal which was then made into unleavened dough for flat cakes by grinding with a handstone on a quern (metate).
• A metate (or mealing stone) is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.
• There is evidence that the Hohokam, early inhabitants of the region, used and recorded the position of sunlight shining through the latter opening to mark the seasons—notably the equinoxes and the solstices, which were marked by carving a slick area (metate) in the rock.
• Ethnographies of 20th-century indigenous communities seem to indicate that women could have spent between four and eight hours a day at a metate grinding nixtamal, but women in a 2007 study at Xaltocan insisted that an experienced woman could grind all she needed for the day in only an hour; regardless, use of a metate for grinding is considered tedious work.
• Within the typical food of the region is jerky, zacahuil which is a large tamale that sometimes measures up to 2 meters, ranchero chicken, enchiladas, and ground chocolate metate.
• Also found at this site were metate and mano (stone) fragments, atlatl points as well as areas of lapidary work with pebbles and chipped stone manufacturing.
• Grave goods included 27 ceramic vessels of mixed of local and imported origin, stone and shell artefacts including a well-used stone metate and accompanying handstone, a large quantity of jade artefacts, including jade discs and hundreds of beads that once formed a semicircular collar, two pairs of earspools and a great many more beads in small groups that did not form a part of the collar.
• These volunteer excavations produced artifacts and other data that supported the previous research; including a chert crescent tool and a leaf-shaped chert biface that supported an estimated date of 10,000 - 7,000 YBP, and a metate feature, which is one of the oldest dated examples of ground-stone in California.
• Everything together is grounded in metate (a mealing stone) or in the nixtamal mill until a kind of dense paste remains.
• Finally, everything is crushed in a molcajete or metate, or failing that, a blender, although beforehand, the chiles must be rehydrated in a container with water for a few minutes, or otherwise it would be very difficult to crush them.
• Some examples are the words elote (<élotl), meaning “corn cob”; metate (métatl), which refers to a mealing stone; and petate (

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