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Comment on dates from a resin-coated sherd from Spirit Cave, Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joyce C. White
Joyce C. White*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-6324, USA
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Part of the enormous importance of the Spirit Cave pottery lies in the early date (7500BP) implied by radiocarbon dates from charcoal associated with some of the sherds. This was challenged by Lampert et al. who directly dated one Spirit Cave sherd from its resin to 3000 BP (Antiquity 77: 126–133). But here Joyce White argues that the stratigraphic context and typology of the dated sherd do not provide a valid basis to support a revision of dating for the earliest sherds. A response from Lampert et al. follows.

Keywords

Spirit CaveceramicsresinAMS dating
Type
Debate
Information
Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 299 , March 2004 , pp. 184 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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References

Gorman, C.F. 1969. Hoabinhian: A Pebble-tool Complex with Early Plant Associations in Southeast Asia, Science 163: 671–3.Google Scholar
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White, J.C. 2001. [Unpublished letter to Cynthia Lampert dated March 10, 2001, giving provenience information on Lampert sherds A–T from the original Spirit Cave excavation records.]Google Scholar

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