Conférencier：Dr. Yaroslav V. KUZMIN (Senior Research Fellow, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)

Titre : Origins of Pottery in Greater East Asia: Results and Problems


Date : Lundi 1 avril 2019, 15:00.
Lieu : Salle 702, Institut d'histoire et philologie, Academia Sinica, Taipei

Résumé:
Patterns for the emergence of pottery-making in greater East Asia, based on
radiocarbon dates associated with the earliest pottery and
archaeological data, are presented. According to a critical evaluation
of the existing evidence, the oldest centers with pottery in East Asia
are located in South China (dated to ca. 18,000 cal BP), the Japanese
Islands (ca. 16,700 cal BP), and the Russian Far East (ca. 15,900 cal
BP). The claim for earlier pottery in South China at the Xianrendong
Cave, supposedly dated to ca. 20,000 cal BP, cannot be substantiated.
The appearance of pottery in other parts of greater East Asia was a slow
process, without clear diffusion from any of these centers toward the
periphery. In neighboring Siberia, the oldest pottery dated to ca.
14,000 cal BP is known from the Transbaikal.

Organisateurs :
- EFEO Taipei Center
- Institute of history and philology, Academia Sinica

La conférence est donnée en anglais.

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