{"id":"EA-XINGLONGGOU-001","label":"Xinglonggou House 22 jade bi-shaped blades (匕形器)","people_or_site":"Xinglonggou (Aohan Banner)","country_current":"China","historic_region":"Aohan Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia; Xinglonggou site, Xinglongwa culture (c. 6050 BC)","macroregion":"East Asia / China","local_name":"玉匕形器","source_term":"yu bixingqi (jade bi-shaped object)","source_language":"Chinese","object_description":"Two jade bi-shaped blades from House 22 at Xinglonggou, the Xinglongwa-culture village ~13 km from the type-site where the CASS Institute of Archaeology (2001–2003 excavations, Liu Guoxiang) also documented early jade-working. A published photograph captioned to House 22 shows a narrow, rounded, cream-colored nephrite blade with a single biconically drilled hole at the upper end — a textbook member of the end-pierced thin-blade class, here from a house/settlement context rather than a grave. Date: Xinglongwa culture, c. 6250–5450 BC; no separate radiocarbon isolated for House 22.","function_summary":"Catalogued within the Xinglongwa ornament repertoire.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"xinglonggou_h22_bixingqi","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/446658674_695096","page_or_plate":"Sohu 2021 captioned photographs","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Xinglonggou site, Baoguotu area, Aohan Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia; village-level published locations.","jade_complex_role":"anchor","blurb":"Xinglonggou, a village of the Xinglongwa culture in the dry hills of Aohan Banner, is one of the places where archaeologists have caught jade-working itself in the act — eight thousand years ago its people were grinding and drilling nephrite a short walk from where they lived. From House 22 come two of the thin, tongue-shaped jade blades that Chinese archaeology calls bi-shaped objects: narrow strips ground to a slender section and pierced at the upper end by a small drilled hole. Everywhere else in this early world the little blades turn up mostly on the bodies of the dead, which is why they are read as ornaments; here they belong to a house floor in a village of makers.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"匕形器 (bǐxíngqì): 'bi-shaped object' — an elongated spoon- or tongue-shaped blade named after the ancient Chinese bi eating-spoon; thin nephrite blades pierced at one end.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":["snake"],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":true,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"c. 6250–5450 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"xinglonggou_h22_bixingqi, Sohu 2021 captioned photographs","sources":[{"citation":"Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Xinglonggou excavations (2001-2003), house 22; Yang Hu, Liu Guoxiang & Tang Chung (邓聪), 《玉器起源探索——兴隆洼文化玉器研究及图录》 (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2007); Kumbani, Bradfield, Rusch & Wurz, 'A functional investigation of southern Cape Later Stone Age artefacts resembling aerophones,' Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24 (2019)","url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/446658674_695096","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013010920/https://www.sohu.com/a/446658674_695096"}],"source_citations":"Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Xinglonggou excavations (2001-2003), house 22; Yang Hu, Liu Guoxiang & Tang Chung (邓聪), 《玉器起源探索——兴隆洼文化玉器研究及图录》 (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2007); Kumbani, Bradfield, Rusch & Wurz, 'A functional investigation of southern Cape Later Stone Age artefacts resembling aerophones,' Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24 (2019)","source_display":"Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Xinglonggou excavations (2001-2003), house 22; Yang Hu, Liu Guoxiang & Tang Chung (邓聪), 《玉器起源探索——兴隆洼文化玉器研究及图录》 (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2007); Kumbani, Bradfield, Rusch & Wurz, 'A functional investigation of southern Cape Later Stone Age artefacts resembling aerophones,' Journal of Archaeological Science:…","date_citation_display":"Sohu 2021 captioned photographs","object_display":"Two jade bi-shaped blades from House 22 at Xinglonggou, the Xinglongwa-culture village ~13 km from the type-site where the CASS Institute of Archaeology (2001–2003 excavations, Liu Guoxiang) also documented early jade-working. A published photograph captioned to House 22 shows a narrow, rounded, cream-colored nephrite blade with a single biconically drilled hole at the upper end — a textbook member of the end-pierced thin-blade class, here from a house/settlement context rather than a grave. Date: Xinglongwa culture, c. 6250–5450 BC; no separate radiocarbon isolated for House 22.","function_display":"Catalogued within the Xinglongwa ornament repertoire.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"xinglonggou","display_name":"Xinglonggou House 22 jade bi-shaped blades (匕形器)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-xinglonggou-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-xinglonggou-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"A jade bi-shaped blade from House 22 at Xinglonggou, with rounded ends, mottled coloring and a circular hole near one end.","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://www.sohu.com/a/446658674_695096","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A jade bi-shaped blade from House 22 at Xinglonggou, pierced at its upper end."},"slug":"ea-xinglonggou-001-xinglonggou-aohan-banner"}