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New dates for the north China Mesolithic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert G. Elston,
Xu Cheng,
David B. Madsen,
Zhong Kan,
Robert L. Bettinger,
Li Jingzen,
Paul J. Brantingham,
Wang Huiming and
Yu Jun
Robert G. Elston
Affiliation:
Intermountain Research, Drawer A, Silver City NV 89428, USA. elston@pyramid.net
Xu Cheng
Affiliation:
Wang Huiming & Yu Jun, Ningxia Institute of Archaeology, 13 Limin Street, Yinchuan 75001, Ningxia, PRC.
David B. Madsen
Affiliation:
Utah Geological Survey, 1594 West North Temple, Salt Lake City UT 84114, USA
Zhong Kan
Affiliation:
Ningxia Museum, West Pagoda Courtyard, Yinchuan, Ningxia 75001, PRC
Robert L. Bettinger
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis CA 95616, USA
Li Jingzen
Affiliation:
Ningxia Cultural Relics Bureau, 60 East Wenhua Street, Yinchuan, Ningxia 75001, PRC.
Paul J. Brantingham
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 05721, USA
Wang Huiming
Affiliation:
Wang Huiming & Yu Jun, Ningxia Institute of Archaeology, 13 Limin Street, Yinchuan 75001, Ningxia, PRC.
Yu Jun
Affiliation:
Wang Huiming & Yu Jun, Ningxia Institute of Archaeology, 13 Limin Street, Yinchuan 75001, Ningxia, PRC.
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The Mesolithic — as the ‘time in between’ — raises issues of definition, the more so as chronology is refined and the abruptness of environmental change at the end of the glaciation becomes clearer. This clarification of an unusual regional sequence is an instance.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997, pp. 985 - 993
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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