Early pottery in South China

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-42

  Lu, Tracey L D ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Ethnoarchaeology; Exchange; Foragers; Pottery; South China; Subsistence strategies; Terminal Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CHRONOLOGY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SUBSISTENCE;

CHINA;

EID: 80051485099     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: 15358283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2010.0003     Document Type: Article

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