Príklady jade

• Finally, experimentation with replicas of the jade plaques demonstrates that these, too, could have served as elite tools.

• The jade bar pectoral is visible northwest (below) the mandible.

• The jade artifacts unfortunately were universally very well cleaned, with no residues surviving.

• Underneath and surrounding the base of the jar were 30 green-blue jade pebbles and an additional 84 green jade pebbles.

• Elites wearing such jade devices probably were conceived as being in continuous sonic contact with numinous beings.

• Basic woodworking probably was done within the household using the jade ax that each household possessed and perhaps aided by scrapers or other tools.

• The jade disks are only polished and bear no incision or other surface carving.

• The upper insert provides a detail of jades under the central jar, and the lower insert is a north-south profile drawing.

• Included in the deposit was an anthropomorphic, tubular jade bead, 7.2 cm long.

• One of the young adults was closely associated with a layer of ground hematite and two jade beads.

• This consisted of two bowls placed lip to lip containing 1 jade bead and approximately 100 mollusks.

• This shattering is par ticularly intense when hot jade is thrown into cold water.

• Because of the difficulty, labor-intensiveness, and expense involved, making replicas from jade or other greenstone was not a viable option.

• Finally, the tapered stela profile resembles upturned jade celts such as those in the cruciform cache.

• His speech scroll appears ornamented with jade beads, perhaps indicating song or oratory.