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Radiocarbon Chronology of the Earliest Neolithic Sites in East Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yaroslav V Kuzmin  and
Charles T Keally
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia. Email: ykuzmin@tig.dvo.ru
Charles T Keally
Affiliation:
Sophia University, 4 Yonban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan
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The radiocarbon age of the earliest pottery from Russian Far East—Gromatukha and Osipovka cultures—is between around 13,300 BP and around 10,400 BP. This shows that the Amur River basin was one of the centers of origin of pottery in East Asia, at the end of the Pleistocene. Today, there are three areas within East Asia with pottery-associated 14C dates between around 14,000 BP and 13,000 BP—southern China, the Japanese Isles, and Russian Far East.

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II. Our ‘Wet’ Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001 , pp. 1121 - 1128
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Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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