Human behavioral responses to environmental condition and the emergence of the world's oldest pottery in East and Northeast Asia: An overview

Abstract

We found that the emergence of oldest pottery in each region in the East and Northeast Asia are temporally varied and affected by different factors due to the diverse resource structure and climatic condition of the area. Therefore, there is no single explanation for them as climatic amelioration or sudden behavioral change. In the second half of LGM, when the climate became relatively temperate, use of the world's oldest pottery has been started in the East and South China. In the end of LGM, the Japanese oldest pottery appeared from the whole area except for Hokkaido of northern Japan. In the warm period of the first half of LG first pottery appeared in the Transbaikal of East Siberia and the Amur basin of Russian Far East. In the second half of LG, in spite of the cold climate, first pottery appeared in the North and Northeast China.