AMNH DN/354

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DN/354

Date Studied

11/15/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Habersham County, Georgia. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased through Bangs & Co. from the Woodward collection on December 27th-29th, 1888 for $3.00.

Color

Dark grayish green with reflective elements

Width (cm)

10.3

Height (cm)

6.4

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.4

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2.3

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.3

Weight (g)

227.7

Notes

This Crescent shaped bannerstone is also often called a Boat shaped form common in the Southern region of Georgia.

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/354,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 21, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/118.

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