Preliminary Provenance Research on Chinese Neolithic Pottery: Huating (Xinyi County) and Three Yellow River Valley Sites

• Published in: Archaeometry Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 35 - 47
• Main Authors: Xu, Anwu, Wang, Changsui, Chi, Jinqi, Li, Mingchuan, Zhang, Maosen, Holmes, L., Harbottle, G., Koshimizu, S., Manabu, K., Koichi, K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK and Boston, USA Blackwell Publishers Ltd 01.01.2001; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: China; Chinese pottery; Dawenkou Culture; INAA; Liangzhu Culture; multivariate statistical analysis; Neolithic sites; petrography; Prehistory and protohistory

Instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) was applied to sherds from the important site of Huating and, for comparison, several Neolithic sites in the valley of the Yellow River. We hoped to compare the compositions of two stylistically different ceramics found at Huating, and to evaluate the...