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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9595-9600

  Boaretto, Elisabetta ^a,b   Wu, Xiaohong ^c   Yuan, Jiarong ^d   Bar Yosef, Ofer ^e   Chu, Vikki ^b   Pan, Yan ^c   Liu, Kexin ^c   Cohen, David ^f   Jiao, Tianlong ^g   Li, Shuicheng ^c   Gu, Haibin ^d   Goldberg, Paul ^h   Weiner, Steve ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relies and Archaeology   (China)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^h Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

14C; Ancient ceramics; Archaeology; Yangzi river

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CHARCOAL; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; BONE; CERAMICS; CHINA; LABORATORY; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SCREENING;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHINA; COLLAGEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67649856877     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900539106     Document Type: Article

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