Adze
A nephrite item defined as a small adze of elongated sub-oval shape. It has a concave-convex cross section and a one-sided blade sharpening. The head is assymetrically ovalled, thin edges are blunted and slightly diverge to an arcuate blade. On one angled end of it, there is an edge break. The adze is made of a thin bar of light green with whitish veins jade.
Manufacturing technique
Grinding
A large part of the face is not treated.
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
20276/2Size
Length - 108,13 mm
Width - 47,95 mm
Thickness - 9,64 mm
Length of the blade - 40,14 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
