AMNH DM/364

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DM/364

Date Studied

11/29/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Seneca County, Ohio. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from W.E. Woodward on August 10th, 1881

Color

Light olive brown with greenish black banding

Width (cm)

11.4

Height (cm)

2.9

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

n/a

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.3

Weight (g)

115.2

Notes

This is a finely carved and polished bannerstone stone with no perforation. Carving of the Pick shape is done in relation to the pronounced natural banding. There is a slight chip at one of the pointed edges. In contrast to most preforms this stone is more fully formed in shape and finely polished.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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Citation

“AMNH DM/364,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 18, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/101.

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