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30. A Large N eolithic S tone Ceremonial Axe ( Fu )
Liangzhu Culture, circa 3300–2250 B.C.
of wide quadrangular form, the flat blade with smoothly polished surface very gently tapered toward
the cutting edge, drilled with a wide aperture cut from both sides and centered below the unevenly
finished butt end, the dark gray stone with a dispersed web of root marks and brown staining on
one side.
Width 6 ⁄8 inches (17.5 cm)
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Compare the polished stone axe of very similar shape and size excavated from the Liangzhu culture site at Fuquanshan,
Qingpu county, Zhejiang province, illustrated by Huang, Gems of Liangzhu Culture, Hong Kong, 1992, pp. 64-65, no. 9, where
the author notes the unsharpened edge and the arduous work required to shape and polish the stone and states that this
kind of axe was “…not a daily tool, but a ritual object for the upper class…”
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