Adze (nephrite)
An adze is made of a thickened dark-green nephritis bar with some natural intersperses and veins of sub-rectangular shape. The butt is oval, the blade is straight. Faces are grinded almost completely (except butt area). The edges are in the shape of straight faces, the surface is grinded unevenly, one edge is half treated.
Manufacturing technique
Grinding
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
НМБ ОФ-20276/2Size
Length - 95.01 mm
Width - 39.44 mm
Thickness - 13.52 mm
Material
NephriteDating
6000 - 4000 years BPCulture
Later NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Hamzina E.A.1953
Publications
Ivashina L.G. Neolit i eneolit lesostepnoj zony Buryatii. Novosibirsk / AN SSSR. Sib. otd-nie. Buryat. fil. Buryat. in-t obshchestv. nauk. - VO "Nauka". - 157 S.
Hamzina E.A. Neoliticheskoe pogrebenie s Novoj SHishkovki/ E.A.Hamzina // Arheologicheskij sbornik/ AN SSSR. Sib. otd-nie. BKNII. -Ulan-Ude , 1959. - Vyp. 1. - C. 127-130
