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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of an Ancient Pottery Workshop in Hepu County, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Xiangdong Ruan ,
Yongjing Guan ,
Zhaoming Xiong ,
Weiming Wu ,
Huijuan Wang ,
Shan Jiang ,
Ming He ,
Kexin Liu ,
Filippo Terrassi  and
Manuela Capano
Xiangdong Ruan
Affiliation:
College of Physics Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Yongjing Guan*
Affiliation:
College of Physics Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China Department of Environmental Sciences, Second University of Naples, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Zhaoming Xiong
Affiliation:
Guangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Nanning 530023, China
Weiming Wu
Affiliation:
College of Physics Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Huijuan Wang
Affiliation:
College of Physics Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Shan Jiang
Affiliation:
China Institute of Atomic Energy, P.0. Box 275(50), Beijing 102413, China
Ming He
Affiliation:
China Institute of Atomic Energy, P.0. Box 275(50), Beijing 102413, China
Kexin Liu
Affiliation:
Institute of Heavy Ion Physics & Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Physics, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing100571, China
Filippo Terrassi
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Sciences, Second University of Naples, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Manuela Capano
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Sciences, Second University of Naples, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
*
Corresponding author. Email: yjguan@gxu.edu.cn
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An ancient pottery workshop belonging to the Han Dynasty was excavated in Caoxie village, Hepu County. Caoxie village is an important archaeological site in Hepu County, Beihai City, in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is believed that Hepu County was the oldest departure point on the ancient maritime trading route during the Han Dynasty (206 BC to AD 220) due to the ideal natural geographical conditions and the existence of a large number of Han tombs. Radiocarbon measurements on wood and charcoal samples from the Caoxie village site were performed at the Peking University AMS facility (PKU-AMS), Beijing, and the Centre for Isotopic Research for Cultural and Environmental Heritage (CIRCE) at Naples Second University, Italy. Calibrated ages were obtained with code CALIB 5 (Stuiver and Reimer 1993). The results of these measurements are presented and the related chronology is discussed.

Type
Archaeology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 2: 20th Int. Radiocarbon Conference Proceedings , 2010 , pp. 479 - 482
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Copyright © 2010 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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