AMNH DN/146

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DN/146

Date Studied

12/6/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Beaver Dam, Allen County, Ohio. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from M. F. Savage on June 13th, 1888 for $1.65

Color

Dark greenish gray

Width (cm)

9.7

Height (cm)

9.5

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.1

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

1.6

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.3

Weight (g)

184.3

Notes

This bannerstone is broken at the narrowest portion of the left side and may have been intentionally broken as is common with bannerstones. There is a deep gash on the back of the stone.

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 DN/146,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 18, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/113.

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