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Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory

Lucquin, Alexandre, Gibbs, Kevin, Uchiyama, Junzo, Saul, Hayley, Ajimoto, Mayumi, Eley, Yvette, Radini, Anita, Heron, Carl P., Shoda, Shinya, Nishida, Yastami, Lundy, Jasmine, Jordan, Peter, Isaksson, Sven, Craig, Oliver E.·2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1522908113
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Significance: Pottery has had a central role in human society for many millennia, but the reasons for the emergence and spread of this technology are poorly understood. First invented by groups of hunter–gatherers living in East Asia during the last glacial period, production only began to flourish with rising global temperatures in the Holocene, but the reasons for its uptake and spread are unknown. Through chemical analysis of their contents, we herein provide, to our knowledge, the first direct evidence of pottery use across this climatic transition. Contrary to expectations, ceramic vessels had a remarkably consistent use, predominantly for processing aquatic resources, indicating that cultural rather than environmental factors were most important for their widespread uptake.

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Lucquin, A., Gibbs, K., Uchiyama, J., Saul, H., Ajimoto, M., Eley, Y., Radini, A., Heron, C. P., Shoda, S., Nishida, Y., Lundy, J., Jordan, P., Isaksson, S., & Craig, O. E.
Affiliations
  • Department of Archaeology, BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom;
  • Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154;
  • World Heritage Center Division, Shizuoka Prefectural Government, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka City 420-8601, Japan;
  • Fukui Prefectural Wakasa History Museum, Obama, Fukui 917-0241, Japan;
  • School of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, United Kingdom;
  • Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2035, Japan;
  • Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen 9718 CW, The Netherlands;
  • Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, SE 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Published
2016-03-21
Volume
113
Issue
15
Pages
3991-3996
ISSN
  • 0027-8424
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1522908113
Cited by
130
References
0
Language
en
Licence
www.pnas.org/preview_site/misc/userlicense.xhtml (vor, 184 d)
Funders
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/L00691X/1)
  • Leverhulme Trust (F/00 152/AM)
  • Seventh Framework Programme (624467: PONTE)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science London (PE 11560)

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Lucquin, A., Gibbs, K., Uchiyama, J., Saul, H., Ajimoto, M., Eley, Y., Radini, A., Heron, C. P., Shoda, S., Nishida, Y., Lundy, J., Jordan, P., Isaksson, S., & Craig, O. E. (2016). Ancient lipids document continuity in the use of early hunter–gatherer pottery through 9,000 years of Japanese prehistory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522908113