Mortar & Pestle

Grinding and mixing tools for preparing grains, pigments, medicines, spices, resins, and mineral powders.

Core metadata

ID: mortar_and_pestle
Era: Ancient
First known date: -7000 (unknown)
Region: Afro-Eurasia and other historical societies
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Hide Glue Production (hide_glue_production)

Fields

None.

Node sources

Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 3
Average edge confidence: 68%
Prerequisite sources: 2
expert_inference: 3

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Upper Paleolithic Grinding Stones (grinding_stones_querns)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Grinding Stones & Querns provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Pottery (pottery)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Pottery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Early pottery at 20,000 years ago in Xianrendong Cave, China (Science / PubMed, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Herbal Medicine Preparation (herbal_medicine_preparation)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Herbal Medicine Preparation provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.

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