The provenance study of ancient jade artifacts is of great significance to reveal the exploitation and utilization of jade resources, cross-regional material and cultural exchanges in the prehistoric age. Due to the constraints of the test methods and the disquisitive samples, tracing the origin of ancient jade artifacts is still a bottleneck restricting the research of jade archaeology. In recent years, with the deepening of archaeological research and the advancement of scientific testing methods, the geological, archaeological and museological communities have carried out closer interdisciplinary cooperation, and made many new explorations on the origin tracing techno- logy of ancient jade artifacts, and some important results have been achieved. Based on the results of predecessors and our team, this paper summarizes the research of the application of multiple modern major and trace elements testing techniques, such as proton induced X-ray emission(PIXE),X-ray fluorescence spectrometer(XRF),laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer(LA-ICP-MS),electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), as well as radioisotope and stable isotope geochemistry in the origin traceability of ancient jade artifacts. The progress of different geochemical testing techniques in tracing the origin of ancient jade artifacts is comprehensively analyzed, and the problems in the current researches are discussed. Overall, petrogeochemical testing techniques have contributed significantly to the provenance study of prehistoric jade artifacts. The key topics of the future researches should include: systematic geological research of known jade resources, the construction of geochemical (main and trace elements, isotopes) database of jade materials from different geographic origins, the development of nondestructive sample-size-unlimited petrogeochemical analysis techniques and their large-scale applications in the testing of ancient jade samples.