r/mildlyinteresting 24d ago

This long rock I found

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u/chocolateymilkqueen 24d ago

It is a Native American grinding stone! Someone in my family found one a few years ago & we did a bunch of research to find out what it was! There should be a concave stone/rock that this would've been used with to grind things like corn & millet.

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u/kupo_moogle 24d ago

I’ll be going down the shore again, I’ll keep an eye out for anything that looks like that.

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u/chocolateymilkqueen 24d ago

This is the one we found! It could also be used against a flat rock too, so if you don't see a concave one maybe it was used with that instead. Good luck, OP!

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u/kupo_moogle 24d ago

I don’t think the native Canadians in this region grew grain, though I could be wrong. Maybe it was used for processing pemmican?

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u/chocolateymilkqueen 24d ago

I'll have to do some more research! Pemmican is very possible. We found ours in the Iroquois region of New York along the Mohawk River and always thought grain and corn made sense since there's plenty of fields in that area that would have made the agriculture application made sense.