| Literature DB >> 17782213 |
A C Roosevelt, R A Housley, M I DA Silveira, S Maranca, R Johnson.
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.Year: 1991 PMID： 17782213 DOI： 10.1126/science.254.5038.1621
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728