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MuseumsSite Name: American Museum of Natural History (New York) Alternative Name: AMNH
Country: United States
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Region: New England Type: Museum
Nearest Town: New York  Nearest Village: Manhattan
Latitude: 40.780000N  Longitude: 73.974W
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American Museum of Natural History (New York)
American Museum of Natural History (New York) submitted by dodomad : Why did prehistoric Native Americans fashion the enigmatic objects known as bannerstones? Art historian Anna Blume, who is making an intensive study of these artifacts in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York Banded slate bannerstone, Michigan (left), height 5 inches; Porphyry granite bannerstone, Iowa (right), height 3.4 inches, width 4.5 inches Phot... (Vote or comment on this photo)
The American Museum of Natural History in New York is one of the largest museums in the world. Its stated mission: To discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe.

It is notable for its halls of Human Origins and Cultures, spanning the human cultures from prehistory to historic indigenous cultures. The artifacts and displays are presented in a variety of ways including exhibits, miniature and full scale dioramas.
These are (taken from Wikipedia):
Cultural halls
*Stout Hall of Asian Peoples. There are two sections: Ancient Eurasia, devoted to the evolution of human civilization, and Traditional Asia, containing cultural artifacts from across the Asian continent. The latter section is organized to geographically correspond with two major trade routes of the Silk Road. Notable exhibits include reproductions from Teshik-Tash and Çatalhöyük.
*Hall of African Peoples. Each section presents artifacts and exhibits of the peoples native to major ecosystems throughout Africa. Each type of society is presented in a historical, political, spiritual, and ecological context.
*Hall of Mexico and Central America. It presents archaeological artifacts from a broad range of pre-Columbian civilizations that once existed across Middle America, including the Maya, Olmec, Zapotec, and Aztec. Notable artifacts on display include the Kunz Axe and a full-scale replica of Tomb 104 from the Monte Albán archaeological site.
*Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples.
*Hall of Northwest Coast (North America) Peoples. Featured prominently in the hall are four "House Posts" from the Kwakwaka'wakw nation.
*Hall of Plains (North America) Peoples. Of particular interest is a Folsom point discovered in 1926 New Mexico, providing valuable evidence of early American colonization of the Americas.
*Hall of Eastern Woodlands (North America) Peoples. Details the lives and technology of traditional Native American peoples in the woodland environments of eastern North America.

Human origins halls
*Bernard and Anne Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. At the time of its original opening in 1921 it was the only major exhibition in the United States to present an in-depth investigation of human evolution. Many of the celebrated displays from the original hall can still be viewed in the present expanded format. These include life-size dioramas of our human predecessors Australopithecus afarensis, Homo ergaster, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon, showing each species demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe they were capable of. Also displayed are full-sized casts of important fossils, including the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton and the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy, and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man. The hall also features replicas of ice age art found in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. The limestone carvings of horses were made nearly 26,000 years ago and are considered to represent some of the earliest artistic expression of humans.

Only a small fraction of the collection is on display at any given time, including a very large collection of stone tools. Unfortunately, very few of these can be seen in the digital collections database at this time.

Official Website: http://www.amnh.org/

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American Museum of Natural History (New York) submitted by Flickr : Evolution Exhibit Entrance to the "Hall of Human Origins" in the American Museum of Natural History. Image copyright: wwwebber (Jim Webber), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

American Museum of Natural History (New York)
American Museum of Natural History (New York) submitted by Flickr : Image from page 263 of "Guide leaflet" (1901) Identifier: scienceguide4660amer Title: Guide leaflet Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: American Museum of Natural History Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history Publisher: New York : The Museum Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO View Book P... (Vote or comment on this photo)

American Museum of Natural History (New York)
American Museum of Natural History (New York) submitted by Flickr : Image from page 26 of "Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity /" (1921) Identifier: indiansofmanhatt00skin_0 Title: Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity / Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925. Subjects: Manhattan Indians Indians of North America Publisher: [New York] : American Museum of Natural History Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Why did prehistoric Native Americans fashion enigmatic objects known as bannerstones? by Andy B on Thursday, 13 July 2017
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Around 8,000 years ago, in the woodlands of what is now the eastern United States, hunter-gatherers began to make stone objects with holes drilled in them that have no parallel in any other prehistoric society. Today, archaeologists call these highly polished and sometimes elaborate objects “bannerstones.” The name was coined by early twentieth-century scholars who thought they must have been mounted on shafts and used as emblems or ceremonial weapons. But just why they were made only during the so-called Archaic period, which ended around 3,000 years ago, has been debated by archaeologists for more than a hundred years.

Some have taken the position that they were not strictly ceremonial and were used as weights that imparted force and accuracy to spear-throwers, or atlatls. They were made from a wide variety of stone materials and in different sizes and shapes, though many take a “butterfly” form, so they may not all have been used for the same purposes. “Archaeologists are mystified by bannerstones,” says University of Florida archaeologist Kenneth Sassaman, who has studied the artifacts in detail. “We can’t know for sure what Archaic people were doing with them.”

The latest scholar attracted to the mystery of bannerstones is Fashion Institute of Technology art historian Anna Blume, who is making an intensive study of these artifacts in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She has spent countless hours studying the objects. “Bannerstones get noisier and noisier the more time I spend with them,” says Blume. “These extraordinary Native American works from deep time still have a lot to tell us.” Her project is one of several that are providing a new vantage point from which to observe these intriguing objects, which Blume calls “still lifes in stone.”

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http://www.archaeology.org/issues/262-1707/features/5626-native-american-bannerstones
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