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Comb Ceramic or Pit-Comb Ware (in
(in Japanese)A Zhimin (1988)
Archaeological research on neolithic China
''Current Anthropology''
Comb Ceramic or Pit-Comb Ware (in Europe
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), Jeulmun pottery or Jeulmun vessel (in Korea
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) is a type of pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and ...
subjected to geometric patterns from a comb-like tool. This type of pottery was widely distributed in the Baltic, Finland
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, the Volga
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upstream flow, south Siberia
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, Lake Baikal, Mongolian Plateau
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, the Liaodong Peninsula
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and the Korean Peninsula
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.
The oldest Comb Ceramic is found in the remains of Liao civilization
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: Xinglongwa culture
The Xinglongwa culture () ( 6200– 5400 BC) was a Neolithic culture in northeastern China, found mainly around the Inner Mongolia-Liaoning border at the Liao River basin. Xinglongwa pottery was primarily cylindrical and baked at low temperatures ...
(6200 BC - 5400 BC). 王 巍（中国社会科学院考古研究所・副所長）(in Japanese)A Zhimin (1988)
Archaeological research on neolithic China
''Current Anthropology''
Cultures
*Pit–Comb Ware culture
The Comb Ceramic culture or Pit-Comb Ware culture, often abbreviated as CCC or PCW, was a northeast European culture characterised by its Pit–Comb Ware. It existed from around 4200 BCE to around 2000 BCE. The bearers of the Comb Ceramic cultu ...
- in Finland
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, Baltic and Russia
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*Jeulmun pottery period
The Jeulmun pottery period is an archaeological era in Korean prehistory broadly spanning the period of 8000–1500 BC. This period subsumes the Mesolithic and Neolithic cultural stages in Korea,Choe and Bale 2002 lasting ca. 8000–35 ...
- in Korean peninsula
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See also
*Pottery of ancient Cyprus The pottery of ancient Cyprus starts during the Neolithic period.
Throughout the ages, Cypriot ceramics demonstrate many connections with cultures from around the Mediterranean.
During the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, it is especially imaginative ...
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