EA-NIUDAOKOU-001 - archaeological find

Niudaokou village / Baodi lead

Niudaokou, Baodi District, Tianjin, China - East Asia

Function not recorded Candidate only

At Niudaokou in Tianjin's Baodi district, the bi-shaped jade blade reached its documented southern limit: a strip of jade 5.7 centimetres long, 1.4 wide and half a centimetre thick, pierced at the upper end, found with a slit jade jue earring — the same pairing of blade and earring that defines the Xinglongwa jade kit a thousand kilometres north. Guo Dashun's dispersal studies make the site the southernmost node on the route by which the West Liao jade tradition moved down toward the Bohai coast. Exhibited by the Tianjin Museum in 2023 and held by the Baodi District Cultural Center, it shows the blade-plus-jue package travelling as a package — form and association together.

Object

玉匕; 玉匕形器; 玉匕形饰; 匕形玉坠; 玉玦 combination. Specimens/count: one specimen-level jade bi-shaped pendant/ornament documented; quantity still appears to be one. Material: jade likely. Dimensions: 5.7 x 1.4 x 0.5 cm reported for `匕形玉坠` in a 中国出土玉器全集——天津 repost/search-result lead. Perforation: upper end has one hole per the same catalogue repost/search-result lead. Context: Niudaokou site, Baodi District; 2023 Tianjin Museum exhibition says object came from Niudaokou and is held by Baodi District Cultural Center. Date: Neolithic; not directly dated — placed on the Xinglongwa jue-and-blade dispersal horizon (~8000–7000 BP) by its jade-kit association.

Function

Published as a Neolithic jade bi-shaped ornament (玉匕形饰) found with a jue earring — the Xinglongwa pairing at its southernmost documented point; the atlas tracks it as the range-fixing member of the Chinese blade series.

Map confidence

low - Approximate locality or municipality/site-cluster anchor from the local dossier; refine before public release.

Source location

Sohu/Gu Yu Jie image route; 1991 Kaogu report lead

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