Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China

被引：136

作者：

Boaretto, Elisabetta ^{[1
,2
]}

Wu, Xiaohong ^{[3
]}

Yuan, Jiarong

Bar-Yosef, Ofer ^{[4
]}

Chu, Vikki ^{[2
]}

Pan, Yan ^{[3
]}

Liu, Kexin ^{[5
]}

Cohen, David ^{[6
]}

Jiao, Tianlong ^{[7
]}

Li, Shuicheng ^{[3
]}

Gu, Haibin

Goldberg, Paul ^{[8
]}

Weiner, Steve ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] Bar Ilan Univ, Dept Land Israel Studies, IL-52900 Ramat Gan, Israel

[2] Weizmann Inst Sci, Kimmel Ctr Archaeol Sci, Radiocarbon Dating & Cosmogen Isotopes Lab, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[3] Peking Univ, Sch Archaeol & Museol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China

[4] Harvard Univ, Dept Anthropol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[5] Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China

[6] Boston Univ, Int Ctr E Asian Archaeol & Cultural Hist, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[7] Bernice P Bishop Museum, Dept Anthropol, Honolulu, HI 96817 USA

[8] Boston Univ, Dept Archaeol, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[9] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Biol Struct, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 2009年 / 106卷 / 24期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

ancient ceramics; archaeology; C-14; Yangzi River; SAMPLE PREPARATION; EARLIEST POTTERY; EAST; UNIVERSITY;

D O I：

10.1073/pnas.0900539106

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：9595 / 9600

页数：6

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