Early pottery at 20,000 years ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6089, 2012, Pages 1696-1700

  Wu, Xiaohong ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a   Goldberg, Paul ^b,c   Cohen, David ^b   Pan, Yan ^a   Arpin, Trina ^b   Bar Yosef, Ofer ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CAVE; HUNTER-GATHERER; LATE GLACIAL; MICROMORPHOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SUBSISTENCE;

AGRICULTURE; ART; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHINA; COOKING; EVOLUTION; FORAGER; GLACIAL PERIOD; HISTORY; HUMAN; MICROMORPHOLOGY; OCCUPATION; POTTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

CHINA; JIANGXI;

EID: 84862992786     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218643     Document Type: Article

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