Title: Eighth Millennium Pottery from a Prehistoric Shell Midden in the Brazilian Amazon
Abstract: The earliest pottery yet found in the Western Hemisphere has been excavated from a prehistoric shell midden near Santarém in the lower Amazon, Brazil. Calibrated accelerator radiocarbon dates on charcoal, shell, and pottery and a thermoluminescence date on pottery from the site fall from about 8000 to 7000 years before the present. The early fishing village is part of a long prehistoric trajectory that contradicts theories that resource poverty limited cultural evolution in the tropics.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-12-13
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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