This is a Middle-Archaic greenstone pendant recovered from the east slope of the Little Salt Spring Basin ca. 6000-7000 RCYBP. Donated to the University of Miami in 1982, Little Salt Spring was ...

Maori carvers use greenstone to create versions of the design, an echo of the legend that Maui pulled their islands from the sea. A hei matau, made from pounamu, the Maori word for New Zealand ...

The ornaments found in the deposit include almost 1,500 fragments of greenstone pendants, beads, plaques and mosaics; dozens of objects made from obsidian; and more than 10,000 marine shell beads ...

Included with the bodies were 1,470 fragments of greenstone pendants, beads, plaques, and mosaics, along with large blades—all representing a “single burning event.” ...

Archaeologists working in Guatemala have discovered the burnt remains of Maya royalty in a temple-pyramid at Ucanal, a site 280km north-east of Guatemala City.

Included with the bodies were 1,470 fragments of greenstone pendants, beads, plaques, and mosaics, along with large blades—all representing a “single burning event.” ...

Mr Waititi, who has called ties "a colonial noose," was told last year that he would be ejected from the House if he did not wear one. He wore a taonga, a Maori greenstone pendant, instead.