Radiocarbon AMS dating of the ancient sites with earliest pottery from the Russian Far East

Abstract

Recently obtained radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry dates from the Gasya and Khummi sites (lower Amur River basin, the Russian Far East), on charcoal associated with pottery, fall within the interval 10345 ± 110 to 13260 ± 100 radiocarbon yr BP. Now both Russian Far East and southern Japanese Islands present evidence of the earliest pottery-making technology in the world starting about 13 000 BP.