Roosevelt, A. C., Housley, R. A., Silveira, M. Imazio da, Maranca, S. and Johnson, R. (1991) Eighth Millennium Pottery from a Prehistoric Shell Midden in the Brazilian Amazon. Science, 254 (5038).
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The earliest pottery yet found in the Western Hemisphere has been excavated from a prehistoric shell midden near Santarem in the lower Amazon, Brazil. Calibrated accelerator radiocarbon dates on charcoal, shell, and pottery and a thermoluminescence date on pottery from the site fall from about 8000 to 7000 years before the present. The early fishing village is part of a long prehistoric trajectory that contradicts theories that resource poverty limited cultural evolution in the tropics.
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