| Jade huang ornament possesses a niche in the jade wares unearthed from the Neolithic Age, characterized by large quantity, wide distribution and long duration. Jade huang ornament plays an important role in the ancient jade wares. With the deep research of archaeological relics of the Neolithic Age recent years, jade huang display an ascending tendency both towards quantity and variety. And the academic circle has steered the direction of jade huang research from researching by means of historical documents to interpreting jade huang using archaeological typology, gender archaeology, thus implementing a deep research on the metaphysical meaning of jade huang in the Neolithic Age.At present, research on jade huang of the Neolithic Age is comparatively inadequate at the level of archaeological data. In addition, with the recent excavation of jade huang, prior knowledge of the function, usage and meaning of jade huang changed a little. Based upon the above-mentioned reason, this paper aims to carry out a systematic research on jade huang of the Neolithic Age in China, meanwhile using archaeological typology and gender archaeology to comb the track of development of jade huang in the Neolithic Age and the evolution rule of its shape. Also this paper tries to interpret such connotation as function and usage method of jade huang through archaeological data, thus deepening the comprehension of jade huang which became the jade sacrificial vessel in the Neolithic Age. |
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