Chronology of the earliest pottery in East Asia: progress and pitfalls

• Autores: Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 80, Nº 308, 2006, págs. 362-371
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.