1. The highest elevation inside the municipality is the Cerro el Metate . 2. "Dales con la mano del metate , " he told her. 3. At the edge of Mazatl�n and Concordia runs the Sierra del Metate and Panuco. 4. Stirling was the archaeologist who recovered fragments of the Barriles statues and the large metate . 5. Maria Luisa crushes the cochineal on her " metate , " making a fine red powder. 6. The most complex type of ceremonial metate is the class referred to as flying-panel metate. 7. The most complex type of ceremonial metate is the class referred to as flying-panel metate . 8. Perhaps these metate date much later than previously thought, and were inspired by the depictions in gold. 9. Once nixtamalized, maize was typically ground up on a metate and prepared in a number of ways. 10. Here the metate plays an important role in the processing of maize, the staple crop of the culture.