AMNH DM/1487

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DM/1487

Date Studied

12/6/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Big Creek, Hall County, Georgia. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from Bangs & Co. on October 31st, 1883 for $5.25. (A note in the MS. Indicates that this was originally a sale from Woodward who received the stones from the collection of E. V. Beales of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.)

Color

Dark greenish gray

Width (cm)

11.5

Height (cm)

9.8

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

3.1

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.4

Weight (g)

501.9

Notes

This preform is partially perforated with 1.5 cm perforation with a nipple visible from cane drilling. Overall rough finish on this preform with one spine rounded and the other squared a variation typical of stones found in Northeastern Florida.

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/1487,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 19, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/109.

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