AMNH 20.1/3886

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

20.1/3886

Date Studied

10/18/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Genesee River, Monroe County, New York. Donor Dr. Walter L. Hildburgh

Color

Light olive gray with olive gray banding

Width (cm)

4.8

Height (cm)

5.9

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

n/a

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

1.3

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.1

Weight (g)

40.44

Notes

This bannerstone is broken at the spine either because the stone is weakest at the thin surface of the spine or because it was intentionally broken at the spine as is common with bannerstones. There is a gash towards the edge of the wing.

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 20.1/3886,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 3, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/84.

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