Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

The earliest pottery on the Korean peninsula dates to the early Holocene, notably later than
other regions of East Asia, such as Japan, the Russian Far East and Southern China. To …

The earliest pots in the world are from East Asia and date to the Late Pleistocene. However,
ceramic vessels were only produced in large numbers during the warmer and more stable …

The introduction of pottery vessels to Europe has long been seen as closely linked with the
spread of agriculture and pastoralism from the Near East. The adoption of pottery technology …

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 …

The appearance of the oldest pottery in the world is a major focus of Early Neolithic
archaeology. So far, most discoveries of early pottery have occurred in South China, North …

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 archaeological materials recovered during the 2018 excavation of Zhongshan
Rockshelter (ZSRS) in Bubing Basin, Guangxi, southern China helps to fill a cultural gap …

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 …

In prehistoric hunter-gatherer-fisher communities, demographic growth and a more
sedentary life-style are usually associated with locally concentrated food resources …