AMNH 9/34

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

9/34

Date Studied

10/18/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Ohio, donor A.C. Williams

Color

Olive gray with dark greenish gray banding

Width (cm)

6.7

Height (cm)

13.8

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.9

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

n/a

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.2

Weight (g)

99.9

Notes

This bannerstone is broken at perforation either because the stone is weakest at this point or because it was intentionally broken as is common with bannerstones at the time of their burial. As is common with the geniculate shape, the perforation is oval rather than circular. Carving and banding are elegantly aligned, with smooth polished surface. The perforation made was with a combination of drilling and scraping to achieve the oval shape.

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 9/34,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 26, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/77.

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