AMNH DH/642

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DH/642

Date Studied

9/20/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Massachusetts. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from W. Eliot Woodward on December 12th, 1879.

Color

Dark greenish gray

Width (cm)

10.3

Height (cm)

7.5

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

0.7

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.1

Weight (g)

140

Notes

This is a monochromatic stone often chosen for the Shield shape. This particular stone is not a common Shield shape in that it is shorter and more squared rather than a tapered form. It does have the distinctive subtle barrel at the spine and very thin wings common to this type. New England is written on the 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 DH/642,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 18, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/93.

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