TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China
AU - Boaretto, Elisabetta
AU - Wu, Xiaohong
AU - Yuan, Jiarong
AU - Bar-Yosef, Ofer
AU - Chu, Vikki
AU - Pan, Yan
AU - Liu, Kexin
AU - Cohen, David
AU - Jiao, Tianlong
AU - Li, Shuicheng
AU - Gu, Haibin
AU - Goldberg, Paul
AU - Weiner, Steve
PY - 2009/6/16
Y1 - 2009/6/16
N2 - Yuchanyan Cave in Daoxian County, Hunan Province (People's Republic of China), yielded fragmentary remains of 2 or more ceramic vessels, in addition to large amounts of ash, a rich animal bone assemblage, cobble and flake artifacts, bone tools, and shell tools. The artifacts indicate that the cave was a Late Paleolithic foragers' camp. Here we report on the radiocarbon ages of the sediments based on analyses of charcoal and bone collagen. The best-preserved charcoal and bone samples were identified by prescreening in the field and laboratory. The dates range from around 21,000 to 13,800 cal BP. We show that the age of the ancient pottery ranges between 18,300 and 15,430 cal BP. Charcoal and bone collagen samples located above and below one of the fragments produced dates of around 18,000. These ceramic potsherds therefore provide some of the earliest evidence for pottery making in China.
AB - Yuchanyan Cave in Daoxian County, Hunan Province (People's Republic of China), yielded fragmentary remains of 2 or more ceramic vessels, in addition to large amounts of ash, a rich animal bone assemblage, cobble and flake artifacts, bone tools, and shell tools. The artifacts indicate that the cave was a Late Paleolithic foragers' camp. Here we report on the radiocarbon ages of the sediments based on analyses of charcoal and bone collagen. The best-preserved charcoal and bone samples were identified by prescreening in the field and laboratory. The dates range from around 21,000 to 13,800 cal BP. We show that the age of the ancient pottery ranges between 18,300 and 15,430 cal BP. Charcoal and bone collagen samples located above and below one of the fragments produced dates of around 18,000. These ceramic potsherds therefore provide some of the earliest evidence for pottery making in China.
KW - Ancient ceramics
KW - Archaeology
KW - C
KW - Yangzi river
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67649856877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0900539106
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0900539106
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C2 - 19487667
AN - SCOPUS:67649856877
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 106
SP - 9595
EP - 9600
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 24
ER -