AMNH DM/360

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About this Bannerstone

BA#

39

Catalog or Accession #

DM/360

Date Studied

11/15/2016

Bannerstone Type

Material

Perforation

Provenance/Provenience

Ohio. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from W.E. Woodword on August 10th, 1881

Color

Olive gray with dark gray banding

Width (cm)

3.4

Height (cm)

4.2

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.3

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.2

Weight (g)

29.88

Notes

This is a heavily reworked bannerstone that began as a Butterfly or some other kind of similarly winged stone. It has been re-carved down to just the center of the original and incised with marks along all four edges. Nine similar variants are published by David Lutz in The Archaic Bannerstone, 2000, p 351.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

Images may be downloaded and used freely for teaching and personal use. Include the credit line “© Anna Blume, 2017, Courtesy of the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History” along with the object’s Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the AMNH. For additional publishing questions, contact [email protected]

Citation

“AMNH DM/360,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 2, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/100.

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