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

Lithic raw material economy at the Huayang site in Northeast China: localization and diversification as adaptive strategies in the Late Glacial

“…In particular, a new technique-grinding-was used to finish the newly made tools, such as axes, adzes, and chisels, resulting in the coexistence of ground and flaked stone tools at the sites. In addition, this general trend was accompanied by the appearance of pottery not only at these two sites but also in neighboring regions including the Song-Nen Plain and the middle and lower Amur River basin (Kuzmin 2014;Sato and Natsuki 2017;Wang 2018;Wang and Sebillaud 2019;Yue et al 2020), which signaled a substantial shift in human subsistence patterns (Kunikita et al 2013(Kunikita et al , 2017Shoda et al 2020). With reference to the theoretical expectations on relations between technological organization and settlement mobility (Binford 1979;Kelly 1992;Nelson 1991;Parry and Kelly 1987;Shott 1986), we suggest that the technological changes in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains were likely the result of the decrease of mobility, as well as of the change in land use patterns shifting from residential to logistical mobility.…”

Neolithisation in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains: lithic technologies and ecological adaptation

“…Early pottery has been widely reported in the Russian Far East, particularly from the Oshipovka Culture layers along the lower Amur River, at such sites as Gasya, Khummi, Goncharka 1, Novotroitskoe 10 and Oshinovaya-rechika 16. Together, these sites suggest a use-life ranging from c. 14–12 ka cal BP (Kuzmin & Jull 1997; Kuzmin 1998; Kunikita et al 2013; Sato & Natsuki 2017). The earliest pottery on Hokkaido is reported from the Taisho 3 site, is associated with projectile points, burins and axes, and dates to 15 030–13 570 cal BP (Naoe 2014).…”

“…In recent decades, studies of the Neolithisation process in China, Russia and Japan have begun to give greater attention to the importance of establishing more secure chronologies and to climatic and environmental contexts (e.g. Bar-Yosef 2011; Iizuka & Izuho 2017; Morisaki & Natsuki 2017; Sato & Natsuki 2017).…”

Sedentism, pottery and inland fishing in Late Glacial Japan: a reassessment of the Maedakochi site

“…10 000 cal BP (Zhao 1998; Yuan 2002). These examples suggest that regional differences in climatic conditions and ecological settings may have led to varied socio-economic trajectories across East Asia (Sato & Natsuki 2017).…”