江西仙人洞遗址两万年前陶器的年代研究  

Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

作　　者：吴小红[1] 张弛[1] 保罗.格德伯格 大卫.科恩 潘岩[1] 蒂娜.阿平 欧弗.巴尔-约瑟夫 

机构地区：[1]北京大学考古文博学院 [2]美国波士顿大学考古学系 [3]美国哈佛大学人类学系

出　　处：《南方文物》2012年第3期1-6,共6页Cultural Relics in Southern China

基　　金：国家教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目"晚更新世现代人的年代学研究"(项目号10JJD770015);美国史前研究学院(美国哈佛大学皮巴迪博物馆);美国自然科学基金(项目编号0917739)的资助

摘　　要：陶器的出现使得人类生存和社会行为发生了重要转变。我们对江西万年仙人洞遗址出土陶器进行了年代研究、对陶片和碳十四测年样品层位关系开展地层显微结构分析,结果显示遗址出土最早的陶片年代为距今19,000～20,000年,比东亚和其他地区的陶器早了2000～3000年。洞穴内遗存证明这些陶器是在末次冰盛期由采集狩猎者所制造,可能被用做炊煮器。说明陶器在农业出现以前一万年甚至更早就被制造和使用了。The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,000 to 19,000 calendar years before the present, 2000 to 3000 years older than other pottery found in East Asia and elsewhere. The occupations in the cave demonstrate that pottery was produced by mobile foragers who hunted and gathered during the Late Glacial Maximum. These vessels may have served as cooking devices. The early date shows that pottery was first made and used 10 millennia or more before the emergence of agriculture.

关 键 词：早期陶器 碳十四测年 江西仙人洞 

分 类 号：K876.3[历史地理—考古学及博物馆学]