RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE EARLIEST NEOLITHIC CULTURES FROM THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: INITIAL RESULTS BASED ON ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRIC(AMS) DATING OF ORGANIC TEMPER IN POTTERY

  • Kuzmin Yaroslav V. ("Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • Published : 1998.12.30

Abstract

The extraction of carbon from temper in organic-tempered pottery of the Initial Neolithic sites on the Russian Far East allowed to date directly the earliest pottery in the area. First results show that pottery of the Gromatukha culture has $^{14}C$<

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