Thermoluminescence dating of brazilian indigenous ceramics
29-Jun-2020 22:45
At the Kamino site in addition to a handful of potsherds were found micro blades, wedge-shaped microcores, spearheads and other artifacts similar to assemblages at Pre-ceramic sites in Japan dated between 14,000 and 16,000 years before the present (BP).
5000 BC and comprised about 500 to 800 houses with a population estimated potentially, to be as large as 5,000 people.Recently redated ceramic sherds from the Paleolithic/Neolithic cave site of Xianrendong in the Yangtse Basin of central China in Jiangxi province hold the earliest established dates, at 19,200-20,900 cal BP years ago.These pots were bag-shaped and coarse-pasted, made of local clay with inclusions of quartz and feldspar, with plain or simply decorated walls.The second oldest pottery in the world is from Hunan Province, at the karst cave of Yuchanyan.
In sediments dated between 15,430 and 18,300 calendar years before the present (cal BP) were found sherds from at least two pots.Ceramic sherds are also found, also in small quantities, but with a bean-impression decoration, in a half-dozen sites of the Mikoshiba-Chojukado sites of southwestern Japan, also dated to the late Pre-ceramic period.