EA-NIUHELIANG-001 - archaeological find
Niuheliang N5SCZ1:2 white-jade board
China - Niuheliang Locality 5, Chaoyang, Liaoning; late Hongshan culture - East Asia
Function not recorded Candidate only
长条板状器 Chinese; English site synthesis
Source term: changtiao banzhuang qi (long board-shaped object)
长条板状器 (chángtiáo bǎnzhuàng qì): “long board-shaped object,” the excavation catalog's descriptive name for N5SCZ1:2.
Centuries after the Chahai and Xinglongwa slats, this undecorated white-jade strip entered an upper cairn at Niuheliang. It belongs to the Jade Complex as a possible late-Hongshan continuation: the older blade reduced to a pale, exact board in the same ceremonial landscape as female ancestors and paired round-and-square altars. Much later, Chinese artists personified that geometry as serpent-bodied Nüwa opening her compasses—but the jade itself carries no inscription or named deity.
- Object
- White jade long board-shaped object, specimen N5SCZ1:2, excavated from upper-layer cairn no. 1 at Niuheliang Locality 5. Length 9.4 cm; upper width 1.9 cm; lower width 2.5 cm; thickness 0.6 cm. The accessible catalog description reports no perforation or decoration.
- Function
- Catalogued as a long board-shaped jade object; original use unrecorded.
- Map confidence
- low - UNESCO coordinate for the Niuheliang archaeological complex (41°16′15″ N, 119°27′9″ E); the public record does not isolate the exact N5SCZ1 artifact coordinate.
- Source location
Page references
Object 373; N5SCZ1:2