AMNH DN/307

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DN/307

Date Studied

11/29/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Gallia County, Ohio. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from M. F. Savage on December 12th, 1888 for $2.00.

Color

Light olive gray with greenish black banding

Width (cm)

8.5

Height (cm)

1.8

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

0.9

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2.3

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.7

Weight (g)

52.53

Notes

This Pick shaped bannerstone is carved in alignment with 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 DN/307,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed November 23, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/116.

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