EditorialMinoan fresco. Akrotiri, Island of Thera (Santorini). House of Ladies. Lady offering a necklace to a goddess. 1650 BC. Museum of Prehistoric Thera. Santorini, Greece.
EditorialPapyrus Fresco, ca. 1550 BC. Minoan. Bronze Age. From Akrotiri, Island of Thera (Santorini). Three stemmed, blossoming plants are painted on the walls. Room of the Ladies. Museum of Prehistoric Thera. Santorini, Greece.
EditorialPrehistoric Art. Spain. Beaker culture (2500-1800 BC). Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic running into the early Bronze Age. It comes from Mallen. Museum of Zaragoza. Aragon.
EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialMenhir Filitosa V-with long saber and short sword, largest of the menhir statues in the Filitosa Prehistoric Station. These statue-menhirs were probably representations of dead chieftains or priests of the bronze-age population of Corsica.
EditorialKnife, North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales), Nephrite, H. 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); W. 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); D. 5/16 in. (0.8 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska), Nephrite, H. 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm); W. 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); D. 11/16 in. (1.8 cm), Jade.
EditorialKnife, North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Nephrite, light spinach-green, H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); W. 7/16 in. (1.1 cm); D. 3/8 in. (1 cm), Jade.
EditorialPick or root digger, North America (Alaska, Point Barrow), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Point Barrow), Nephrite, H. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm); W. 1 in. (2.5 cm); D. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm), Jade.
EditorialHatchet, North America (Alaska, Sledge Island), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Sledge Island), Nephrite, H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); W. 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm); D. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Nephrite, H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); W. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm); D. 1/2 in. (1.2 cm), Jade.
EditorialHarpoon head, North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales), Nephrite, H. 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm); W. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); D. 1/8 in. (0.3 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska), Nephrite, H. 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm); W. 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); D. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm), Jade.
EditorialKnife-sharpener, North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Nephrite, H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); W. 3/8 in. (1 cm); D. 1/4 in. (0.7 cm), Jade.
EditorialAxe, North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales), Nephrite, H. 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm); W. 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); D. 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm), Jade.
EditorialChisel, North America (Alaska), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska), Nephrite, H. 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm); W. 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); D. 1/2 in. (1.3 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Nephrite, H. 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm); W. 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska, vicinity of Fort Clarence), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, vicinity of Fort Clarence), Nephrite, H. 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); W. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); D. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska, Chatham Island), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Chatham Island), Nephrite, H. 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm); W. 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); D. 3/8 in. ( 1 cm), Jade.
EditorialAdze, North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Prehistoric, Culture: North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound), Nephrite, H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); W. 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); D. 13/16 in. (2 cm), Jade.