夏明霞
幼苗
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At first glance,the new discovery does appear to support the hypothesis that pots migrates with the pot makers,however,further analysis suggests just the contrary.
First,it is reasonable to assume that compared to the entire population,migrating pot makers represent only a small percentage.Secondly,after migrating to a certain area,a pot maker is bound to spread pots,and thus ingested metals to that area.Lastly,pottery-making,like all other technology,must spread.It is difficult to assume that a prehistoric tribe would let a pot-maker go,since pots would doubtlessly generate a lot of profit in trade when other tribes do not have such technology.
With these assumptions,if pot makers migrated and brought the technique with them,the new tribe would gain such a technique,and thus all children in said tribe would ingest heavy metals since early childhood,and thus be no different in terms of bone-metal density than the pot makers,and thus the people who migrated to a new place after childhood would not have a significantly higher metallic element in their skeleton than those that did not migrate.On the other hand,if these immigrants came from pot-making tribes,but when traded to tribes without pots,it is natural that their bones would have a significantly higher metal content than average in that area.
Moreover,bones with high metallic contents found near pots can only indicate that pots are the cause of high metallic elements in the human skeleton,but does nothing to unveil the source of these pots.Whether they were traded or made,as long as the pots are present,so would the high metallic components.
Thus,the discoveries above support the hypothesis that pots were spread by trade,not migration.
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