2016年6月3日 · A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland showcases a rarely seen collection of Stone Age jade axeheads. Most of them were brought to Scotland around 4,000 years BC. Skip to main content

The polished stone axe was a revolutionary tool that transformed society and the landscape after the Ice Age. At the time Northern Europe was covered in thick forest.

2010年2月4日 · In today's programme, Neil Macgregor tells the story of a beautiful piece of jade, shaped into an axe head. It is about 6000 years old and was discovered near Canterbury in Kent but was made in...

The Olmec fashioned votive axes in the form of figures carved from jade, jadeite, serpentine and other greenstones. The figures have a large head and a small, stocky body that narrows into a blade shape. They combine features of a human and other animals, such as jaguar, eagle or toad.

2017年1月9日 · This axe is made of European jade mined in prehistoric quarries in the Italian Alps. It appears to be an object of beauty rather than function. It would have taken several days to polish this jade object by grinding it against stone, polishing with fine sand or silt and rubbing by hand with grass or leaves.

(Mark Edmonds) We're in Canterbury in this programme, around 4000 BC, where the supreme object of desire is a polished jade axe. At first sight our axe looks like thousands of others in the...

Southern Scandinavian jade axes have been interpreted as items of prestigious exchange illustrating contact with the agrarian societies of Central Europe and reflecting agrarian ideas and ideology.

Axes were typically made of humbler materials; the use of jade indicates this example’s ceremonial role, as does its size and the quality of the carving. The form is anthropomorphized into a supernatural figure with arms folded across the chest, both hands grasping a sharp object—perhaps a ceremonial ax.

Discover the origins of the jade dagger-axe in prehistoric China. Explore its morphological features, hafting methods, and role in burial rituals. Uncover the intriguing connection between the jade dagger-axe and the axe.

2016年6月3日 · The JADE project “Social Inequalities and Europe during the Neolithic: The Circulation of Large Alpine Jade Axe-heads” (French National Research Agency: BLANC-06-1-1347240), carried out between 2006 and 2010, was an explicitly ethnoarchaeological undertaking according to the definition and methods that we defined in the past and in ...