AMNH 20.1/5818

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

20.1/5818

Date Studied

10/18/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Saratoga County, New York (Ross's Farm)

Color

Medium gray with dark gray banding

Width (cm)

4.5

Height (cm)

3.9

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

n/a

Depth at Edge (cm)

n/a (broken at edge)

Weight (g)

13.2

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. This piece is exceptionally delicate and small and may have been a miniature. The carving is carefully done to accentuate the natural banding from the spine out to 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 20.1/5818,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 19, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/85.

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