Jade Follows The Flag

Lingling-o: jade earrings   500BC-500AD

Hung, H.-C.  et al. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (2007).Prehistoric  jade  merchants spreading  material from a single Taiwanese source may also have spread Austronesian languages throughout a huge area of Southeast Asia  Three-pointed jade ornaments called  lingling-o have been found in southeastern Taiwan, and also all the way out to the Philippines, eastern Malaysia, southern Vietnam, central and southern Thailand, and Cambodia.

Hsiao-Chun Hung, at the Australian National University in Canberra, and her colleagues used an electron microprobe  to determine elemental composition and found 116 of 144 jade ornaments from across the 3,000-kilometre-wide region came from the Fengtian jade deposit in eastern Taiwan.

They should check out Jalapa.

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Perhaps future archaeologists will have similar comment about the Coke bottle or AK-47?