Pictures Of Bannerstones

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Pictures of bannerstones. She plans to make all her data and images. He also felt that the time expended in making bannerstones. Fluted bannerstones are most often tube banners with an indention that runs the length of the tube on one side. Bottle and butterflies bannerstones for instance are believed to have served as status symbols as they are often found undamaged.

I found this nice pdf concerning bannerstones and here is the link. This may be true for some of the artifacts. As mentioned before scholars initially believed that they were used as emblems or ceremonial weapons. The crescent banner shown above is the only fluted style known to the author that is not a tube.

The holes are typically 1 4 to 3 4 in diameter and extend through a raised portion centered in the stone they usually are bored all the way through but some have been found with holes that extend only part of the way through. Finely composed carved and polished works are usually associated with luxury items for a ruling elite. It has wonderful color photos of the bannerstones and a really nice distribution map showing where each type was found. Bannerstones however were made within distinctly egalitarian societies raising questions about who made them who were they made for.

Bannerstones then could have become emblems of ethnic identity made by people acutely aware of the other groups that lived in the eastern woodlands. The archaic bannerstone project is a resource for the study of the aesthetically complex anomalous ancient native american lithics known as bannerstones. Bannerstones are artifacts usually found in the eastern united states that are characterized by a centered hole in a symmetrically shaped carved or ground stone. His conclusions were based partly on the fact that certain forms of bannerstones were usually made from exotic and beautiful material such as ferruginous quartz or highly banded slate.

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