Sentence examples for milling stone from inspiring English sources

An essential feature of Desert assemblages is the milling stone, for use in grinding wild seeds.

Steel and textile milling, stone quarrying, and the manufacture of industrial and home equipment are important industries.

However by the Terminal Classic it was used as a domestic building, as evidenced by the abundant ceramics and stone artefacts recovered, the latter include a fragment of a metate milling stone, an obsidian knife and two flint knives.

Basalt for manos and metates (milling stones) was also abundant.

The people used baskets, nets, crude milling stones, simple bone tools, and stemmed or notched chipped-stone projectile points.

"The sacred and the mundane were mixed in this culture," Mr. Nichols said, standing beside rock rings and milling stones.

It differs from preceding Paleo-Indian horizons in its orientation toward a broad range of resources, including plant foods, as evidenced by the frequent use of milling stones.

The grains were identified as coming from manioc, yams and arrowroot and were found on milling stones in sediments that date from 5,000 to 7,000 years ago.

The majors have large heads with massive mandibles that act as biological milling stones, crushing seeds too hard for minors to crack open.

In earlier sites this is likely to be a small, thin, portable slab of stone used with a small pebble handstone, while later in the sequence, large, basin-shaped milling stones are more characteristic.

Dried corn was boiled in lime-impregnated water to soften the hull, ground into a dough on milling stones (manos and metates), and then either made into tortillas or mixed with water and drunk as a gruel called posol.