AMNH DM/522

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DM/522

Date Studied

11/15/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Unknown. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from W.E. Woodword on October 4th, 1881.

Color

Olive gray with dark greenish gray banding

Width (cm)

4.5

Height (cm)

8.4

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.8

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

1.6

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.3

Weight (g)

62.48

Notes

There are incised marks along the entire surface of the stone. They are carved in groups of 7, 8, and 9 lines. Some bannerstones are marked with grooves along the edge, especially common on Reel shaped bannerstones. These markings appear to be archaic in origin and may have been incised when the stone was carved or added later for unknown purposes. The perforation is oval.

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/522,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 26, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/103.

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