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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 

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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

Photo Credit: John Bigelow Taylor

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