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  • Paleolithic
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    • Paleolithic art, an introduction
    • Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi, Indonesia
    • Figurative cave art in Borneo
    • Our earliest technology?
    • Carvings and paintings, Kakadu
    • Lion Man
    • Apollo 11 Cave Stones
    • Venus of Willendorf
    • Hall of Bulls, Lascaux
    • Cave of Altamira, northern Spain
    • Rock art on the Iberian coast
    • Rock drawings in Valcamonica
    • Bhimbetka cave paintings
    • Clovis culture, North America
    • Bannerstones, North America
  • Neolithic
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    • The Neolithic revolution
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    • Çatalhöyük
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    • Newgrange, a prehistoric tomb in Ireland
    • Stonehenge
    • Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (UNESCO/NHK)
    • Orkney
    • Nuragic architecture at Su Nuraxi Barumini, Sardinia
    • Anthropomorphic stele
    • Jade Cong
    • Working jade
    • Running Horned Woman, Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
    • Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (Libya)
    • Rock Art in the Green Sahara (Neolithic)
    • Rock carvings in Tanum

Working jade

by Asian Art Museum

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Cite this page as: Asian Art Museum, "Working jade," in Smarthistory, January 28, 2016, accessed October 2, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/working-jade-3/.
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