News Archaeology 18 July 2018
Japan’s love affair with fish began very early
Analyses show the use of ceramics was strongly linked to processing fish. Andrew Masterson reports.
In Japan the rapid spread 11,000 years ago of a key new technology – pottery – was driven almost entirely by the need to store seafood.
This finding, reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, runs against expectations. It was assumed – although never investigated – that the sudden widespread adoption of pottery many years after its first emergence in East Asia around 20,000 years ago was because a warming climate made it necessary to store more and more terrestrial plant and animal food sources.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/japan-s-love-affair-with-fish-began-very-early
