Stone Knives, Polished
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1889
notes: label: Notes
content: One Illustrated p. 38 in Taylor, Paul Michael, and Christopher J. Lotis. 2008. Flagship of a fleet: a Korea Gallery guide. Washington, D.C.: Asian Cultural History Program, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Semi-lunar knife; Stone; 15.2 x 6.4 cm; 6th-5th century B.C.; Bronze age. This knife was probably used by ancestors of present-day Koreans to harvest rice, a staple of the Korean diet.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021859
label: USNM Number
content: A140905-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife