Cooking stone

Museum number:
1-127075
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.UCAS-84
Description:
Cooking stone. According to Richard F. Ambro, "One quadrant of a tabular, possibly ground, cobble of crystalline stone (possibly granite); burned; encrusted on one face and adjacent edges with a black tar-like substance; opposing face with a lighter colored substance in which grass fragments are embedded. Chemical analysis recommended to identify substance(s). Remarks: granite. UCAS-455 page 9 refers to this and 1-127064, with residues; no reference to analysis.
Donor:
University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
CA-Ama-3 (Bamert Cave), Amador County, California
Collector:
Adán Eduardo Treganza and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
September 1950
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Cooking stones
Accession date:
September 5, 1950
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking stone, accession number 1-127075, described as Cooking stone. According to Richard F. Ambro, "One quadrant of a tabular, possibly ground, cobble of crystalline stone (possibly granite); burned; encrusted on one face and adjacent edges with a black tar-like substance; opposing face with a lighter colored substance in which grass fragments are embedded. Chemical analysis recommended to identify substance(s). Remarks: granite. UCAS-455 page 9 refers to this and 1-127064, with residues; no reference to analysis.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking stone, accession number 1-127075, described as Cooking stone. According to Richard F. Ambro, "One quadrant of a tabular, possibly ground, cobble of crystalline stone (possibly granite); burned; encrusted on one face and adjacent edges with a black tar-like substance; opposing face with a lighter colored substance in which grass fragments are embedded. Chemical analysis recommended to identify substance(s). Remarks: granite. UCAS-455 page 9 refers to this and 1-127064, with residues; no reference to analysis.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking stone, accession number 1-127075, described as Cooking stone. According to Richard F. Ambro, "One quadrant of a tabular, possibly ground, cobble of crystalline stone (possibly granite); burned; encrusted on one face and adjacent edges with a black tar-like substance; opposing face with a lighter colored substance in which grass fragments are embedded. Chemical analysis recommended to identify substance(s). Remarks: granite. UCAS-455 page 9 refers to this and 1-127064, with residues; no reference to analysis.

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