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ANTIQUITY
Volume 80, Issue 308, Pages 362-371Publisher
ANTIQUITY
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00093686
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East Asia; Neolithic; Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition; pottery; radiocarbon dating
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The origin of pottery is among the most important questions in Old World archaeology. The author undertakes a critical review of radiocarbon dates associated with the earliest pottery-making and eliminates a number of them where the material or its context are unreliable. Using those that survive this process of 'chronometric hygiene; he proposes that food-containers made of burnt clay originated in East Asia in the Late Glacial, c. 13 700-13300 BP, and appeared in three separate regions, in Japan, China and far eastern Russia, at about the same time.
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