2006/06/01 by Yaroslav V. Kuzmin · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Pottery #Radiocarbon dating #Chronology #Archaeology #Context (archaeology) #China #East Asia #History #Geography #Ancient history
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00093686
openalex publication_date 2006/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/08
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 . 13 700-13 300 BP, and appeared in three separate regions, in Japan, China and far eastern Russia, at about the same time.