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PrehistoricNative American Nutting Stone or Grinding Tool, Mortar & Pestle. Price Reduced by Again!
Used possibly for cracking nuts such as acorns, hickory nutsor walnuts. Also for grinding seeds or other grain. Also some believe they wereused as a Mortar & Pestle and grinding foods into meal or flour. See allphotos. And check out my listing of the Axe Head that I have listed for sale.
This set was unearthed while a crew was digging sand in a quarryoutside of Shenandoah in Page County, Iowa and they used the sand to make abeach at a small fishing lake at Rapp Park. In time the rain washed these tothe surface just enough that they were partially visible. While fishing I wasthe lucky one to find them barely exposed enough that I knew they were not justcommon rocks.
The sand where I found them was from a nearby Quarry whereduring excavating a sand pit they found the complete fossilized skeleton of alarge Woolly Mammoth which is on display at the University of Nebraska Museumin Lincoln, Nebraska. Where professionals and College students reconstructed aLife size reproduction from the fossilized skeleton. Google Wooly Mammoth inLincoln, Nebraska and see the display which is outside the museum.
Manypeople including my have found Native American artifacts and prehistoric dinosaur fossils from the same area
In my research of which Native American tribes had presencein the area of Page County in SW Iowa this is the results:
