AMNH 1/1702

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

1/1702

Date Studied

11/15/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Thousand Island, Jefferson County, New York

Width (cm)

9.7

Height (cm)

12.5

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.4

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.2

Weight (g)

270.3

Notes

This bannerstone is well worn with chips at the top and bottom of the perforation and chips along the edges. Smooth finish with evident scratch marks from fine polishing. Monochromatic fine-grained shale and slate were often chosen for Shield-shaped bannerstones.

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 1/1702,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed May 1, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/62.

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