apr 19, 3300 BC - Jade Cong
Description:
Date: 3,300 BCE ~ 2,200 BCEArtist: unkown
Medium: Jade
Location:
original: Liangzhu, China
current: Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology, Hangzhou
Function:
- show power / wealth
- protect in after life / telling one what happens after death
- connection to nature
Form:
- engravings are very precise
- engravings are sanded
- jade is hard to create things out of so people needed lots of time to create this
- shows how important culture believed congs were
Added to timeline:
Date:
apr 19, 3300 BC
Now
~ 5328 years ago
