{"id":"EA-NOVOPOKROVKA-001","label":"Novopokrovka nephrite slat-lures","people_or_site":"Novopokrovka / Novopokrovskoe nephrite blesny","country_current":"Russia","historic_region":"Middle Amur / Amur Oblast; Novopokrovka or Novopokrovskoe route","macroregion":"Siberia / Russian Far East","local_name":"блесны","source_term":"блесны; nephrite slat-lures; grooved spoon/lure objects; 匕形器 in Chinese diffusion literature","source_language":"Russian","object_description":"Two slender grooved slats of whitish-green nephrite, each concave on one face and convex on the other, with a biconically drilled hole at one end — 9 × 1.2 cm and 7 × 1 cm — and a 5 × 2 cm fragment of a third, heavier slat.","function_summary":"Published as fishing spoon-lures.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"novopokrovka_blesny_1973","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.klex.ru/s6f","page_or_plate":"Okladnikov and Derevyanko 1973, pp. 124-125","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate regional point on the middle Amur, Amur Oblast, for the Novopokrovka (Novopokrovskoe) find; not a site coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"anchor","blurb":"Found in 1961 four kilometres outside the Amur village of Novopokrovka, a Neolithic settlement had been all but ploughed away, yet its surface still gave up two slender slats of whitish-green nephrite — nine and seven centimetres long, barely over a centimetre wide — each with one face scooped concave and the other left convex, and a neat biconically drilled hole through one end; a third survived as a fragment. Okladnikov and Derevyanko matched them, form for form, to the famous 'lures' from Kondon far down the Amur, and the match helped define a single Lower Amur grooved-slat type across the basin. These are the only Neolithic pieces in the Russian series with published measurements, which makes them the reference specimens for the whole class — and close cousins in outline of the bi-shaped jade blades of Xinglongwa China, beside which the Chinese diffusion literature indeed cites them.","pull_quote":"В районе с. Новопокровского … были найдены две прекрасно отшлифованные блёсны нижнеамурского типа из беловато-зелёного нефрита.","pull_quote_translation":"In the area of the village of Novopokrovskoye … two beautifully polished lures of the Lower Amur type, of whitish-green nephrite, were found.","pull_quote_cite":"Istoriya Sibiri, vol. 1, p. 750","term_gloss":"блесны (blesny): 'spoon-lures' — the excavators' fishing-lure reading","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. 5000–3000 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"cultural","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"novopokrovka_blesny_1973, Okladnikov and Derevyanko 1973, pp. 124-125","sources":[{"citation":"A. P. Okladnikov and A. P. Derevyanko, Далёкое прошлое Приморья и Приамурья (1973), pp. 124-125; История Сибири, vol. 1, p. 750","url":"https://www.klex.ru/s6f","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013005924/https://www.klex.ru/s6f"}],"source_citations":"A. P. Okladnikov and A. P. Derevyanko, Далёкое прошлое Приморья и Приамурья (1973), pp. 124-125; История Сибири, vol. 1, p. 750","source_display":"A. P. Okladnikov and A. P. Derevyanko, Далёкое прошлое Приморья и Приамурья (1973), pp. 124-125; История Сибири, vol. 1, p. 750","date_citation_display":"Okladnikov and Derevyanko 1973, pp. 124-125","object_display":"Two slender grooved slats of whitish-green nephrite, each concave on one face and convex on the other, with a biconically drilled hole at one end — 9 × 1.2 cm and 7 × 1 cm — and a 5 × 2 cm fragment of a third, heavier slat.","function_display":"Published as fishing spoon-lures.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"novopokrovka","display_name":"Novopokrovka nephrite slat-lures","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-novopokrovka-001-okladnikov-fig.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-novopokrovka-001-okladnikov-fig_thumb.jpg","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://www.klex.ru/s6f","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Novopokrovka nephrite blesny with section profiles — Okladnikov & Derevyanko 1973, p. 125 — блесны"},"slug":"ea-novopokrovka-001-novopokrovka-novopokrovskoe-nephrite-blesny-lead"}