Earliest use of birch bark tar in Northwest China: evidence from organic residues in prehistoric pottery at the Changning site

doi:10.1007/s00334-018-0694-7

	Earliest use of birch bark tar in Northwest China: evidence from organic residues in prehistoric pottery at the Changning site
	Rao, Huiyun 1; Wang, Qianqian 2; Ren, Xiaoyan 2; Zhang, Zhaoxia 1; Huang, Wanxia 3; Yuan, Qingxi 3; Jiang, Xiaochenyang 1,4; Yang, Yimin 4
刊名	VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY
	2019-03-01
卷号	28 期号:2 页码:199-207
关键词	Birch bark tar Pottery function Carbonized residues Qijia culture
ISSN号	0939-6314
DOI	10.1007/s00334-018-0694-7
通讯作者	Yang, Yimin(yiminyang@ucas.ac.cn)
英文摘要	The analysis of organic residues in pottery can provide abundant information on the lives of ancient people, including the natural resources consumed, the techniques applied, the functions of pottery, and so on. In this paper, a variety of methods, including FT-IR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), GC-MS (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry), SEM (scanning electron microscopy) and SR-CT (synchrotron radiation micro-computed tomography), have been employed to characterize the carbonized residues from an amphora, unearthed from the Changning site, Qinghai Province, Northwest China. The pottery residues were identified as birch bark tar, so ancient people in China could have used the particular local plant resources, birch bark, to produce tar as early as the Qijia cultural period (c. 4,000-3,500 BP). The birch bark tar could have been used to make composite tools discovered at the Changning site, and the amphora has probably been used for tar production. This, to our knowledge so far, is the earliest evidence for the use of birch bark tar in China. Due to the special geographical location of the Gansu-Qinghai Region, and the transition of subsistence strategy during the Qijia cultural period, the production and utilization of birch bark tar could not rule out the possibility of western influence, which needs further evidence.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41702186] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41472145] ; National Young Top-Notch Talent Support Program in China ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS
WOS关键词	ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTTERY ; GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY ; IRON-AGE ; QINGHAI PROVINCE ; IDENTIFICATION ; EXPLOITATION ; COMPONENTS ; PATTERNS ; VESSELS ; BEESWAX
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences ; Paleontology
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000459227100006
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Young Top-Notch Talent Support Program in China ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/9413]
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Yang, Yimin
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Qinghai Prov Inst Cultural Relics & Archaeol, Xining 810007, Qinghai, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rao, Huiyun,Wang, Qianqian,Ren, Xiaoyan,et al. Earliest use of birch bark tar in Northwest China: evidence from organic residues in prehistoric pottery at the Changning site[J]. VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,2019,28(2):199-207.
APA	Rao, Huiyun.,Wang, Qianqian.,Ren, Xiaoyan.,Zhang, Zhaoxia.,Huang, Wanxia.,...&Yang, Yimin.(2019).Earliest use of birch bark tar in Northwest China: evidence from organic residues in prehistoric pottery at the Changning site.VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,28(2),199-207.
MLA	Rao, Huiyun,et al."Earliest use of birch bark tar in Northwest China: evidence from organic residues in prehistoric pottery at the Changning site".VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY 28.2(2019):199-207.