Adze
The adze is made on a narrow elongated sub-rectangular nephrite bar thin in cross section. The adze has an assymetrically sharpened head and an extended slightly bent blade edge.
Manufacturing technique
Grinding, polishing
Blade sharpening angle is 30 degrees
Use-wear traces
The edges in the proximal are grinded. The distal area has straight shears with traces of cloggings. Faces are polished, they have traces of longitudinal light lines. Four short transverse dents are found on the obverse. There are some traces of small abrasive in the blade area.
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
10497Size
Length - 308 mm
Width - 73,87 mm
Thickness in the middle part - 13,78 mm
Length of the blade - 83,29 mm
Material
Nephrite (dark green)Dating
VII-V th. BCCulture
NeolithicThe author of the excavations
Ivashina L.G.1968
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.
