AMNH 20.1/6788

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

20.1/6788

Date Studied

10/18/2016

Provenance/Provenience

South Central Mississippi

Color

Light gray with medium gray banding

Width (cm)

5.9

Height (cm)

12.2

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

n/a

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

1.9

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.2

Weight (g)

130.5

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 are deep grooves on the inner curve of one of the notched sides indicating carving techniques for these kinds of complex shapes. The thin and thick light veins distinguish the natural stone.

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 20.1/6788,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 26, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/86.

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