A Preliminary Report on the So-Called "Bannerstones"
Author(s): John Leonard Baer
Year: 1921
Summary
J. Whittaker: C.C. Abbott responsible for term "bannerstone". 3 bannerstones with short stone shafts from NC, one pictured [can't tell if hole goes all the way through]
Describes manufacture process from site in PA: slate blocked out, pecked, scraped, drilled, polished. Experiments by McGuire suggest 10.5 hrs for all that.
Fragile, unsharpened, no practical use: "mounted upon handles for ceremonial use".
Cite this Record
A Preliminary Report on the So-Called "Bannerstones". John Leonard Baer. American Anthropologist. 23 (4): 445-459. 1921 ( tDAR id: 423318)
Keywords
Temporal Keywords
Bronze Age
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Chalcolithic
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Iron Age
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Mesolithic
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Neolithic
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Palaeolithic
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): EXARC Experimental Archaeology Collection Manager
Record Identifiers
ExArc Id(s): 10129
Notes
Rights & Attribution: The information in this record was originally compiled by Dr. Roeland Paardekooper, EXARC Director.