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Laguna de los Cerros:
A Terminal Classic Period Capital in the Southern Mexican Gulf Coast
Ground Stone Analysis
The classification of 2635 ground stone artifacts was completed according to the categories shown in Table 1. Figures 10 and 11 show ground stone artifacts.
TABLE 1
Frequency of artifactual types in the ground stone category. |
| Type of Artifact |
Number of Artifacts |
| Sharpener, metamorphic rock |
2 |
| Basalt with bark, fragment |
102 |
| Plain basalt ring |
1 |
| Basalt duct, fragment |
1 |
| Basalt sculpture, fragment |
6 |
| Solid basalt sphere |
4 |
| Basalt, fragment |
784 |
| Basalt, fragment, with one ground face |
122 |
| Metate, fragment, metamorphic rock |
2 |
| Basalt, metate with flange |
2 |
| Mano, basalt, triangular cross section, possible preform |
1 |
| Basalt flake |
1133 |
| Mano, basalt, square cross section |
1 |
| "Bone" shaped mano, basalt, top view |
7 |
| Mano, basalt, hemispherical cross section |
1 |
| Mano, basalt, elliptic cross section |
8 |
| Mano, basalt, oval cross section |
1 |
| Mano, basalt, "panqué" shaped cross section |
3 |
| Mano, basalt, rectangular to oval cross section |
8 |
| Mano, basalt, rectangular cross section |
10 |
| Mano, basalt, round cross section |
4 |
| Mano, basalt, isosceles triangle cross section |
2 |
| Mano, mortar, basalt |
1 |
| Basalt anthropomorphic metate |
2 |
| Rectangular metate, basalt, with long supports |
4 |
| Metate, basalt, with rectangular supports |
1 |
| Fragment of metate, basalt |
202 |
| Flat-rectangular metate, basalt |
2 |
| Metate, basalt, preform |
3 |
| Metate, metamorphic rock |
1 |
| Miniature metate |
1 |
| Small metate |
8 |
| Rectangular metate, basalt, with two small supports |
38 |
| Cylindric mortar, basalt |
3 |
| Miniature mortar, basalt |
2 |
| Square to rectangular mortar made of metapmorphic rock |
1 |
| Basalt tablet |
1 |
| Basalt striker |
1 |
| Gravel striker |
9 |
| Dish with flange, basalt |
103 |
| Rectangular preform |
18 |
| Basalt polisher |
9 |
| Gravel polisher |
15 |
| Basalt vessel |
4 |
| Vessel, metamorphic rock |
1 |
| TOTAL |
2635 |
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