This article conducted extensive research on nearly 20 marble-related nephrite de-posits in East Asia,revealing the common mineralization patterns of nephrite and establis-hing a comprehensive nephrite geochemical database.On this basis,a non-destructive meth-od for tracing the origin of ancient nephrite artifacts has been developed.This method has al-ready been successfully applied to provenance studies of jade artifacts excavated from several important prehistoric sites,preliminarily outlining the prehistoric jade routes and fully dem-onstrating the value of prehistoric jade artifacts in studying the origin of Chinese civilization.
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