Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave.pdf

Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China a,b,1 c,1 d e b c f g Elisabetta Boaretto , Xiaohong Wu , Jiarong Yuan , Ofer Bar-Yosef , Vikki Chu , Yan Pan , Kexin Liu , David Cohen , Tianlong Jiaoh c d i j , Shuicheng Li , Haibin Gu , Paul Goldberg , and Steve Weiner aDepartment of Land of Israel Studies, Bar Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel; bRadiocarbon Dating and Cosmogenic Isotopes Laboratory, Kimmel Center of Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel; cSchool of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; d Hunan Institute of Archaeology, Hunan 410008, China; eAnthropology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; fSchool of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; gInternational Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, Boston University, Boston, MA h i 02215; Department of Anthropology, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI 96817; Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215; and j Department of Structural Biology and the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel Edited by Bruce D. Smith, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and approved April 14, 2009 (received for review January 16, 2009) Yuchanyan Cave in Daoxian County, Hunan Province (People’s Re- such as the Pengtoushan and Bashidang sites, and other settle- public of China), yielded fragmentary remains of 2 or more ceramic ment sites of the Pengtoushan Culture (18