Ancient Anasazi hide scraper

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Ancient Anasazi hide scraper. The scraper has a curvature shape design on the bottom scraping side for the hide which was placed on a out cropping rock. With the hides under side up, the hide locked firmly on to the rock so it wouldn't slide. Pressure from this tool with a side scraping motion prepared the hide for tanning by removing the membrane tissue.

Ancient Anasazi grinding pestle

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An ancient grinding pestle. A much earlier tool than that of the Mano and Metate, used by the women of the Anasazi to grind corn and herbs for cooking and pulverizing plant material for color pigments used in paints for ceremonial events and religious applications.

Anasazi Meditation Prayer stone

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Ancient Anasazi meditation prayer stone made of mudstone. The Meditation prayer stone is of a tear drop shape; smoothed to fit comfortably and held in hand. Designed to rub the thumb back and forth to create a soothing relaxed concentation state while meditating. The Anasazi used this tool as an aid to help in meditation while in prayer to reach a higher conscious level of spiritual awareness.

Ancient Anasazi Fire starter

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The size of this fire starter was made for the ease of placing this tool into a pouch along with a fire pump drill that was disassembled to take along on trade routes which these ancient traders would walk for many miles and would be away from their homes for months at a time. The use of a fire drill stick end point was set in the hole, burnable grass was placed around in the bowl. A rapid turning motion was achieved from the fire drill stick end which created friction heat that would start to smoke and smolder. It was then transfered to another waiting pile to start their fires.

Bottom side of arrow shaft maker

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To the right side of the stone tool image, you can see; look closely ( click on picture for close view. ) at the partial hole that is drilled on the very edge of the hole. This thin stone line between the hole bored completely through and the partial hole creates the scraping blade edge. The size of the hole on the bottom side ( shown ) tapers from large to smaller size for consistent same diameter size of arrow shafts.

Anasazi Arrow shaft maker

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An ancient Anasazi ( Lost Technology ) Arrow Shaft Maker. Made of hard stone with a smooth hole bored 13/16" on top and tapers down to 7/16." Finger tip grips were included in this design for a tight grip hold with a scrape blade edge on the bottom side. This tool was used in a vertical motion, the hole on top is bigger to be able to see the work being done. A smooth tapered bore was created for arrow shaft diameter consistency. This tool is considered lost technology. Universally excepted of a simpler design of arrow shaft tools priorly recovered consist of a flat rock with a straight line groove in the center, makes the width diameter of an arrow shaft. This arrow shaft maker on the other hand, was ingeniously designed to have the wood branch to be formed into an arrow shaft, pass through the stone which was used in an up and down vertical motion. This very creative design tool was discovered at an ancient site. Strong evidence suggests that the Anasazi who occupied the area of this ancient pit house village were killed off by the arrival of other hostile peoples ( Who eventually became known as the Navajo and Apache ) killed the ancient agriculturalists, including the man who tooled this superior design which did not expand further shared knowledge as a well designed tool for creating the arrow shaft, and therefore became lost technology many hundreds of years earlier. The simpler design had been known and excepted as the only design of arrow shaft maker.