Historic human–climate interactions have been of interest to scholars for a long time.
However, exploring the long-term relation between prehistoric demography and climate …

INTRODUCTION Human speech manifests itself in spectacular diversity, ranging from
ubiquitous sounds such as “m” and “a” to the rare click consonants in some languages of …

Abstract During the Late Glacial, hunter-gatherers began using ceramic cooking containers
in three separate geographic regions of East Asia: China, Japan and in the Russian Far …

The earliest pottery in East Asia, as is found in several cave sites in southern China,
emerges in Upper Paleolithic contexts dating from the Last Glacial Maximum,∼ 20 Ka cal …

Scholars have suggested that late Pleistocene foragers in greater East and Northeast Asia
adopted pottery, but the chronology and behavioral contexts of pottery adoption are …

The paper summarizes the current evidence on the post-glacial peopling of Kamchatka
based on the latest investigations of Ushki V—currently, the earliest and most informative …

The Neolithic is a key topic in the study of Old World prehistory but how the Neolithic is
defined varies between regions. In East Asia the invention of pottery is often seen as …

Patterns for the emergence of pottery-making in greater East Asia based on radiocarbon
dates associated with the earliest pottery assemblages are presented. According to a critical …

There has been a great increase in archaeological research in Mongolia since 2000.
Increasingly precise chronologies, regional studies, and the growth of development-driven …

There are many reasons why the earliest pottery of East Asia is so interesting for
researchers. One of them is that it is a unique source for reconstruction of cultural diversity …