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  • Comment on dates from a resin-coated sherd from Spirit Cave, Thailand

  • Joyce C. White
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 78 / Issue 299 / March 2004
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 184-187
    Print publication:
    March 2004

  • Part of the enormous importance of the Spirit Cave pottery lies in the early date (7500BP) implied by radiocarbon dates from charcoal associated with some of the sherds. This was challenged by Lampert et al. who directly dated one Spirit Cave sherd from its resin to 3000 BP (Antiquity 77: 126–133). But here Joyce White argues that the stratigraphic context and typology of the dated sherd do not provide a valid basis to support a revision of dating for the earliest sherds. A response from Lampert et al. follows.