AMNH DM/1714

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DM/1714

Date Studied

12/13/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Ohio. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from Mrs. S. E. Cowing from the collection of Marshal Cowing of Seneca Falls, December 1st, 1885 for $5.00.

Color

Light olive gray with greenish black banding

Width (cm)

10.1

Height (cm)

4.1

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.2

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

1.4

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.2

Weight (g)

137.4

Notes

This bannerstone has unusual planar surfaces that align with and further accentuate the natural banding of the stone on both sides.

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/1714,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed November 23, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/111.

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