Park Brochure

Tools

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The Ancestral Puebloans were people without metal of any kind. They skillfully shaped stone, bone, and wood into a variety of tools for grinding, cutting, pounding, chopping, perforating, scraping, polishing, and weaving. They used the digging stick for farming, the stone axe for clearing land, the bow and arrow for hunting, and sharp-edged stones for cutting. They ground corn with the metate and mano, large grinding stones, and made wooden spindle whorls for weaving. From bone they fashioned awls for sewing and scrapers for working hides. They usually made their stone tools from stream cobbles rather than the soft sandstone of the cliffs.

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