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The Antiquity of Pottery in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William A. Ritchie
William A. Ritchie*
Affiliation:
New York State Museum and Science Service, Albany, N. Y.
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Abstract

Radiocarbon dates indicate the beginning of fiber-tempered pottery in Georgia and Florida around 2000 B.C. In discussing the relative antiquity of ceramics in the Southeast and Northeast, Bullen rejects a radiocarbon date of 2448 B.C. for Vinette 1 pottery from the Hunter site, New York, because of dubious association of pottery and burial complex. The association is shown to be secure, but a new gas-method radiocarbon date of 841 B.C. for the same sample, removes the difficulty, and establishes an approximate age of 1000 B.C. for the earliest known Northeastern ceramics.

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American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , April 1962 , pp. 583 - 584
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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