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Thermoluminescence Determinations on Early Ceramic Materials from Coastal Southern California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christopher E. Drover ,
R. E. Taylor ,
Thomas Cairns  and
Jonathon E. Ericson
Christopher E. Drover
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92502
R. E. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92502
Thomas Cairns
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, Los Angeles, CA
Jonathon E. Ericson
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

Radiocarbon determinations on marine shell have previously been used to provide evidence assigning a fourth to sixth millennium B.C. age to ceramic objects excavated at the Irvine site, an early Archaic period shell midden located in coastal southern California. Objections have been raised concerning the reliability of the stratigraphic association of ceramics and the radiocarbon-dated marine shell materials. An examination of the thermoluminescence responses of two ceramic samples resulted in minimum TL ages of ca. 1500 B.C. Evidence for a presumably indigenous California ceramic tradition may also be present at two additional sites. This suggests that the arrival of ceramic forms into southern and central California by way of the southern Great Basin and Colorado River may be seen as a separate, comparatively recent [ca. A.D. 1000] phenomenon.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 285 - 295
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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