Earliest evidence for the use of pottery

Nature

Volumn 496, Issue 7445, 2013, Pages 351-354

  Craig, O E ^a   Saul, H ^a,b   Lucquin, A ^a   Nishida, Y ^b   Tache K ^a   Clarke, L ^c,d   Thompson, A ^e   Altoft, D T ^a   Uchiyama, J ^f   Ajimoto, M ^g   Gibbs, K ^h   Isaksson, S ⁱ   Heron, C P ^c   Jordan, P ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Niigata Prefectural Museum   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^g Wakasa History and Folklore Museum   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; LIPID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; FOOD; ISLAND; LIPID; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; STABLE ISOTOPE; VESSEL;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOTONE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; JAPANESE; MARINE SPECIES; PLEISTOCENE; POTTERY; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; COOKING; DIETARY FATS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GREENLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; JAPAN; LIPIDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEAFOOD;

JAPAN;

EID: 84876290794     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12109     Document Type: Article

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