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Nutting stone from the Hatchie River Region in West Tennessee, Early Archaic Period, c. 8,000 BCE.
Hatchie River Museum at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center.
Nutting stones such as this were used to harvest mast, or the fruit of a nut, from their shells. A small depression was ground out from the surface of the stone. Then the nut was placed in the depression and struck by a wooden or stone hammer. Because nutting stones are generally heavy and hard to transport, their discovery on prehistoric sites suggests that the indigenous group they come from lived a more sedentary, permanent lifestyle within a settlement or village.
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