AMNH DK/664

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DK/664

Date Studied

9/13/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from W. E. Woodword June 15th, 1880.

Color

Olive gray with lighter colored reflective small elements

Width (cm)

Height (cm)

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.7

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.1

Weight (g)

225.6

Notes

This bannerstone is finely carved with exceptionally thin wings from the spine out to the edge. Published in Knoblock (1939) Pl. 118, no. 1.

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 DK/664,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 16, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/94.

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