ancientbannerstones

[ancientbannerstones]

ANCIENT BANNERSTONES 6000 BCE-1000 BCE

ARCHAIC PERIOD AMERICA ENIGMATIC AND MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACTS

Networks of trade and formation of “alliances”

Emblems of prestige and status conferred upon hunters coming of age

Increasing the spear-throwers efficacy

Spiritual survival; part of a cosmological system of belief that varied between archaic peoples

1930’s WPA Project Excavate Indian Knolls Site in Western Kentucky. 880 burials, 42 Bannerstones thought to be Atlatl’s

Middens, caches, human burials in subterranean or earthen mounds

6,000 BCE Shell Mound Archaic people created tubular bannerstones. Often in women and children’s graves.

3,200 BCE; Bannerstone styles proliferate

Florida, Georgia, Great Lakes, Atlantic Coast; Virginia to New York; Emblems of ethnic identity

1,500 BCE; Bannerstones disappear and new ritual art appears.

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