Hammer
97-563-6697
From: New Mexico | San Jose River Region
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-563-6697 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ancestral Pueblo |
| Provenience | New Mexico | San Jose River Region |
| Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
| Locus | near the river |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Stone | Basalt (uncertain) |
| Technique | Pecked |
| Description | Grooved between rounded poll and rounded bit. The bit edge in this case is flat and has a slight circular depression in its center, perhaps an indication of the hammer's original use. Made from a mafic igneous rock, perhaps basalt. |
| Length | 8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-563-6697 - Old Museum Number | 20184 - ANSP Number | I 609 - Gottschall Number |
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