班纳斯通 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	班纳斯通
品名（英）	Bannerstone
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.403
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2000
创作地区	美国, 俄亥俄州或伊利诺伊州（United States, Ohio or Illinois）
分类	石头工具（Stone-Implements）
尺寸	高 2 5/16 x 宽 3 1/2 x 深 1 1/8 英寸 (5.9 x 8.9 x 2.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	条石是长矛投掷者的重物，是推动实际飞镖的长柄，从而延长投掷者的射程。从公元前四千年开始，在北美使用了大约3000年，bannerstone的形式多种多样。本示例的形式被称为双缺口蝶形。它是由带状板岩制成的，这是一种常用于石板制造的材料。虽然bannerstone在功能上是实用的，但一致的材料选择和精心、平衡的工艺使其与众不同，并表明其作为受人尊敬的物品和工具的价值。例如，在俄亥俄州和伊利诺伊州山谷的墓葬和随葬冢中发现了许多，这进一步证明了它们在古代的价值。大约在公元前1000年左右，班纳斯通已经不再受欢迎，但在北美的一些地区，长矛投掷器一直使用到16世纪。然而，到那时，掷矛者基本上已经被弓箭所取代。
介绍（英）	Bannerstones are weights for spear-throwers, the long shafts that propelled the actual darts, thus extending the thrower's reach. In use in North America for some 3,000 years beginning in the fourth millennium B.C., bannerstones took many and varied forms. The form of the present example is known as a double-notched butterfly. It is made of banded slate, a material frequently used in bannerstone manufacture. While bannerstones are functionally utilitarian, the consistent selection of materials and their careful, balanced workmanship distinguish them and indicate their worth as esteemed objects as well as tools. Many have been discovered in burials and funerary mounds in the Ohio and Illinois valleys, for instance, further evidence of their value in ancient times. Bannerstones were out of favor by about 1000 B.C., but spear-throwers persisted in use in a few areas of North America until the sixteenth century. However, by that time spear-throwers had largely been supplanted by bows and arrows.