Dating resin coating on pottery: the Spirit Cave early ceramic dates revised

Lampert, Cynthia; Glover, Ian; Hedges, R. E. M.; Heron, Carl; Higham, Thomas; Stern, B.; Shoocongdej, Rasmi; Thompson, Gill

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“…The development of regional and local landscape and environmental histories has been hampered through limited application of high-resolution methodologies for absolute dating (see Barker et al 2007;O'Connor 2007;Roberts et al 2005;Szabó et al 2007), and limited use of context-oriented excavation strategies, both resulting in numerous uncertainties regarding artefact and site typologies (e.g. Lampert et al 2003;White 2004). The archaeological sequence reported here, which also extends into the later Holocene (Szabó et al 2004), is a rare and important resource for study of the ancient Philippines and Southeast Asia.…”

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Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

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Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

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“…The earliest layers were tentatively dated to 11000 BC (Higham 1989: 45-54;Gorman 1972). Once claimed to have the earliest pottery at 7500 BP, more recent AMS radiocarbon dates from organic resin on the ceramic sherds revised this date to 3000 BP (Lampert et al 2003). A wide variety of fauna and plant remains were recovered, however there was no strong evidence of cultivation (Higham 1989: 45-54;Yen 1977).…”

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Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Sarjeant¹

2014

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terra australis 42Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. Dewey Number: 666.09597 List of volumes in Terra AustralisCopyright of the text remains with the authors, 2014. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher.Cover image courtesy of C. Sarjeant.Back cover map: Hollandia Nova. Thevenot 1663 by courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Reprinted with permission of the National Library of Australia. The excavations at An Sơn were funded by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council. My own research was funded by the Australian Postgraduate Award.The analysis of the ceramic fabrics was conducted with SEM-EDX at the Electron Microscopy Unit at The Australian National University, with guidance from Frank Brink. I would also like to thank Glenn Summerhayes for teaching me the benefits and methods of SEM and the electron microprobe.There are a number of people I would like to recognise for their support over the past few years. Charles Higham has always offered advice and provided useful information over the years, even after departing the University of Otago after my Master's. Nigel Chang initially invited me to Ban Non Wat eight years ago, and allowed me to visit again to review the more recent neolithic discoveries in 2009. Fiorella Rispoli and Roberto Ciarla shared their knowledge of the neolithic in central Vietnam, and Fiorella's wealth of knowledge on ceramics has always been a reference for me. Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung opened up the ceramic collections at the University of Hanoi to me in 2009, which offered some valuable comparative ideas for this monograph. Louise Cort and Joyce White organised a workshop on Southeast Asian ceramics in Washington, DC and Philadelphia in 2010; an event from which I gained much inspiration and I feel privileged to have been a part of it. I would also like to acknowledge those individuals from afar who were interested in my research -it helped to keep the inspiration going, so thanks to Andreas Reinecke, Nishimura Masanari, and those I met at conferences over these past few years.Closer to home, I would like to thank Anna Willis for her knowledge about mortuary ritual at An Sơn. I am also grateful for the new insights into southern Vietnamese archaeology after working alongside Philip Piper at Rạch Núi. Thanks to Judith Cameron who was so supp...

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“…Indeed they collected plants, but none was domesticated. Subsequently, resin on the Spirit Cave potsherds has been dated to about 1400 BC (Lampert et al 2003).…”

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The prehistory of Southeast Asia: a retrospective view of 40 years research

Higham¹

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When David Clark asked me in 1970 to contribute a chapter on Southeast Asia for hisnew book, Models in archaeology, I faced a dilemma. What could one say about an areathe size of Western Europe of which virtually nothing was known? So I entitled mychapter 'Initial model formulation in terraincognita' and speculated on the basis ofthe handful of sites that had been excavated (Higham 1972). Nor was the prognosisfor the area at all promising. The war inVietnam was spilling over into Laos andCambodia. China remained a looming voidto the north, Burma was not receptiveand Malaysia did not welcome foreignarchaeologists. Only Thailand shone likea welcoming beacon.

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Dating resin coating on pottery: the Spirit Cave early ceramic dates revised

Cited by 40 publications

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Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

The prehistory of Southeast Asia: a retrospective view of 40 years research

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