scholarly journals The origins of pottery in East Asia: updated analysis (the 2015 state-of-the-art)

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Far East ◽  
Transbaikal Region ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Japanese Islands ◽  
The Russian Far East

Recent developments related to the emergence of pottery in East Asia and neighbouring regions are presented. According to a critical evaluation of the existing evidence, the oldest centres with pottery in East Asia are situated in South China (dated to c. 18 000 calBP), the Japanese Islands (c. 16 700 calBP), and the Russian Far East (c. 15 900 calBP). It is most likely that pottery-making appeared in these regions independently of each other. In Siberia, the earliest pottery now known isfrom the Transbaikal region (dated to c. 14 000 calBP). However, it did not influence the more westerly parts of Siberia in terms of the origin and spread of pottery-making.

scholarly journals The Origin of Pottery in East Asia and Its Relationship to Environmental Changes in the Late Glacial

Radiocarbon ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Terrestrial Plants ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Japanese Islands

The chronometry of the origin of pottery in East Asia can give some insights to the question: did environmental changes trigger and/or accelerate innovations such as pottery-making, maritime adaptation, and agriculture? Recent results show that pottery emerged in 3 regions of East Asia: south China (up to ∼14,800 BP), the Japanese Islands (about 13,800–13,500 BP), and the Russian Far East (∼13,300 BP). The earliest pottery in the Old World preceded the Bølling-Allerød warm period (about 13,000–11,500 BP). Thus, the relationship between climate and pottery origin was not “linear.” It seems that the combination of environmental changes and the necessity to process freshwater fish and mollusks and terrestrial plants (including acorns and nuts) resulted in the introduction of pottery-making in East Asia. An important feature is the quite nonuniform nature of the Neolithization process in the eastern part of Asia, where often in 2 neighboring regions pottery appeared at very different times: approximately 15,000–14,000 BP in south China and ∼4000 BP in mainland Southeast Asia. Thus, the kind of eternal question like “What caused what?” still stands in terms of what were the driving forces for the emergence of pottery in East Asia and worldwide.

scholarly journals Chronology of the Beginning of Pottery Manufacture in East Asia

Radiocarbon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 345-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles T Keally ◽  
Yasuhiro Taniguchi ◽  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin ◽  
Igor Y Shewkomud
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Late Glacial Period ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology ◽  
Japanese Islands ◽  
The Russian Far East

This paper presents an updated radiocarbon chronology of the earliest pottery sites in the Old World. Ceramic production originated in the Late Glacial period in several regions of East Asia—the Japanese Islands, the Russian Far East, and southern China—at approximately the same time, about 13,700–13,300 BP (about 17,200–14,900 cal BP).

scholarly journals The Neolithization of Siberia and the Russian Far East: Major Spatiotemporal Trends (the 2013 State-of-the-Art)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (02) ◽  
pp. 717-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Careful Evaluation ◽  
Northern Asia ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Spatiotemporal Trends ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Russian Far East

The updated chronology of the earliest pottery-containing complexes in Siberia and the Russian Far East is presented herein. The appearance of pottery (i.e. the process of Neolithization) in this vast region of Eurasia is discussed based on a model that represents a simple approximation of calendar ages between key sites as isolines. No clear spatiotemporal patterns for the origin and spread of pottery in northern Asia can be observed because pottery-making (unlike agriculture) could have emerged in different parts of the Old World at various times. Before modeling of pottery dispersal is conducted, careful evaluation of typology and technology of ceramics and stone artifacts should be done, in order to avoid the confusing situation when the results of modeling contradict the basic archaeological information.

scholarly journals Range Extension For Riccia Nipponica And Comments On The R. Crystallina Complex (Ricciaceae, Hepaticae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene A. Borovichev ◽  
Vadim A. Bakalin
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Far East ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
Southern Flank ◽  
The Russian Far East

AbstractFor Riccia nipponica S. Hatt., previously regarded as a Japanese endemic, the paper gives the first records from the southern flank of the Russian Far East and Guizhou Province of China. These records considerably enlarge its known distribution area. New data on its morphological variability, ecology and distribution patterns are summarized and analyzed based on study of available material from East Asia. A morphological description and figures are given, with a key in table form for it and related taxa. Although closely related to the sub-cosmopolitan R. crystallina L., R. nipponica merits species rank.

scholarly journals Asymmetric Hybridization and Sex-Biased Gene Flow Between Eastern Spot-Billed Ducks (Anas Zonorhyncha) and Mallards (A. Platyrhynchos) in the Russian Far East

The Auk ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 930-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina V. Kulikova ◽  
Yury N. Zhuravlev ◽  
Kevin G. McCracken
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Control Region ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Mtdna Haplotypes ◽  
Group A ◽  
American Black ◽  
Group B ◽  
The Russian Far East

AbstractThe Eastern Spot-billed Duck (Anas zonorhyncha) historically was rare in the southern Russian Far East. However, during the last 60–70 years, its breeding range in East Asia has expanded northwest; Eastern Spot-billed Ducks are breeding increasingly within the range of Mallards (A. platyrhynchos). We collected 120 Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Mallards from Primorye, Russia, and sequenced 666–667 base pairs (bp) of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and 255 bp of the ornithine decarboxylase intron six (ODC6). Control region and ODC-6 allele sequences revealed two divergent groups of haplotypes and alleles that differ by 1.5% and 2.0%, respectively, and correspond to Avise et al.'s (1990) group A and B mtDNA haplotypes. Group A mtDNA haplotypes occurred in 22 Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and 78 Asian Mallards, and group B haplotypes occurred in 14 Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and 4 Asian Mallards. Moreover, the group B haplotypes that we observed predominantly in Eastern Spot-billed Ducks (i.e. group SB) were monophyletic and diverged by 2–16 substitutions from group B haplotypes previously sequenced from 241 Mottled (A. fulvigula), American Black (A. rubripes), and Mexican ducks (A. diazi), and from North American Mallards. In contrast, type 1 and 2 ODC-6 allele frequencies for Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Mallards did not differ, but heterozygosity for the former was greater than expected under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Our analysis is the first to document the existence of two divergent haplotype and allele lineages (group A and B, type 1 and 2) in Asian mallard species and suggests that Eastern Spot-billed Ducks are more closely related to North America's Mottled, American Black, and Mexican ducks than they are to Mallards, which occur sympatrically in East Asia. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Mallards have hybridized extensively in the Russian Far East. If so, apparent differences in group A and B mtDNA haplotype ratios, effective populations sizes, and migration rates indicate that many more male Eastern Spot-billed Ducks mated with female Mallards and more Eastern Spot-billed Ducks received ODC-6 alleles from Mallards than vice versa. We hypothesize that those differences reflect strong female natal-site fidelity and high levels of male dispersal, and that Mallards significantly outnumber Eastern Spotbilled Ducks in Primorye. Excess heterozygosity in Eastern Spot-billed Ducks (and in Mallards to a lesser extent) is probably maintained by ongoing emigration of Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Mallards from areas of allopatry outside the Primorye region, where Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Mallards are predicted to possesses genotypic frequencies historically diagnostic of each species.

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