Some Amerasian Pottery Traits in North Asian Prehistory

Bibliographic Data

ID2561973
AuthorsPaul Tolstoy (Columbia University, corresponding author)
Year1953
Volume19
Issue1
Pages25-39
Publication date1953-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/276410
OpenAlexW2314363138
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

Asiatic origins have, at one time or another, been suggested or at least considered for a number of traits connected with the manufacture and decoration of the earlier New World pottery. The well-known paper by McKern (1937) is among the most explicit statements on the subject. Griffin (1946; Sears and Griffin 1950a) has held similar views for some time. Like McKern, he has primarily in mind traits of the Woodland pattern of eastern North America, although he also mentions some non-Woodland traits among those which have counterparts in the Old World (1946, p. 45).Since McKern's paper, the distribution in time of the traits involved has become a lot better established. With the help of the still suspiciously regarded radiocarbon dates, our perspective on ceramic history in the United States has been extended over a span which appears to be that of some four millennia. Among the more significant additions to the Asiatic half of the distributional picture first place must be given to recent Soviet work in eastern Siberia

Archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Griffin · Pottery · Prehistory · Radiocarbon dating · Subject (documents) · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History