{"id":"EA-HAKE-001","label":"Hake notched jade blade","people_or_site":"Hake (Tuanjie) site, grave M3 (Hake culture)","country_current":"China","historic_region":"Hailar River, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia; Hake culture","macroregion":"East Asia / China","local_name":"玉匕形器","source_term":"yu bixingqi (jade bi-shaped object)","source_language":"Chinese","object_description":"Slender jade blade, long and narrow with rounded ends, pierced near one end by a circular hole drilled from both faces, with a small notch ground into the end above the hole. The published drawing shows both faces and a flattened profile; dimensions are unpublished.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"duan_gao2024_hake_m3_33","source_type":"journal_article","source_url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/778746958_121119016","page_or_plate":"Duan & Gao 2024, §III, fig. 5.4 (玉匕形器 M3:33)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Hake/Tuanjie site, trench T2, 49°13′00.7″N 120°04′42.2″E (Guo Dianyong & Liu Jingzhi, 人类学学报 26(3) (2007), p. 278). Site anchor, not grave M3.","jade_complex_role":"anchor","blurb":"On the Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia, beside the Hailar River, the people of the Hake culture made their tools from tiny, finely struck flakes of stone, and they also worked jade. One of their graves, M3, held this slender jade blade, long and narrow with rounded ends. A small hole was drilled through it from both faces near one end, and a notch was ground into the tip just above the hole. The same unusual pairing of hole and notch turns up on a jade blade from Xiaonanshan on the Ussuri River, more than a thousand kilometres to the east, among the oldest worked jades in Northeast Asia.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"匕形器 (bǐxíngqì): 'bi-shaped object', the Chinese archaeological name for an elongated tongue-shaped blade, after the ancient bi spoon.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 6000–5000 BC","date_qualification":"Hake phase I horizon; blade not directly dated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"duan_gao2024_hake_m3_33, Duan & Gao 2024 §III; Xu Lin 2012 p. 80 n. 2","sources":[{"citation":"Duan Tianjing and Gao Yunyi, 「小南山遗址与东北地区史前玉器的相关问题」, 考古与文物 2024(1): 93–100, fig. 5.4","url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/778746958_121119016","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261019134349/https://www.sohu.com/a/778746958_121119016"},{"citation":"Xu Lin, 「故宫博物院藏哈克文化玉石器研究」, 故宫博物院院刊 2012(1): 67–80","url":"https://www.dpm.org.cn/Uploads/File/2018/06/15/u5b235edda7193.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Duan Tianjing and Gao Yunyi, 「小南山遗址与东北地区史前玉器的相关问题」, 考古与文物 2024(1): 93–100, fig. 5.4; Xu Lin, 「故宫博物院藏哈克文化玉石器研究」, 故宫博物院院刊 2012(1): 67–80","source_display":"Duan Tianjing and Gao Yunyi, 「小南山遗址与东北地区史前玉器的相关问题」, 考古与文物 2024(1): 93–100, fig. 5.4; Xu Lin, 「故宫博物院藏哈克文化玉石器研究」, 故宫博物院院刊 2012(1): 67–80","date_citation_display":"Duan & Gao 2024 §III; Xu Lin 2012 p. 80 n. 2","object_display":"Slender jade blade, long and narrow with rounded ends, pierced near one end by a circular hole drilled from both faces, with a small notch ground into the end above the hole. The published drawing shows both faces and a flattened profile; dimensions are unpublished.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hake site","display_name":"Hake notched jade blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EA-HAKE-001_hake-m3-33-fig5-4.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EA-HAKE-001_hake-m3-33-fig5-4_thumb.jpg","alt":"Line drawing of a long narrow blade with rounded ends shown three ways: front, a hatched side profile, and back; a small round hole and a notch sit at the top end.","credit":"Duan Tianjing and Gao Yunyi, 考古与文物 2024(1), fig. 5.4","source_page":"https://www.sohu.com/a/778746958_121119016","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Hake grave M3 jade blade drawn face, profile and back, with the drilled hole and the notch above it at the top end."},"slug":"ea-hake-001-hake-tuanjie-site-grave-m3-hake-culture"}