5-754: Fairy Cave may refer to: Fairy Cave (Jiangxi) Fairy Cave (Colorado) , part of the extensive cave system of Glenwood Caverns Fairy Cave (Victoria) , one of the Buchan Caves Fairy Cave (Sarawak) , one of the Caves of Malaysia Fairy Cave (Bau) Fairy Cave (Somerset) , one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills Dog Hole Cave , Storth, Cumbria, England, also known as Fairy Cave Talking Rocks Cavern , Stone County, Missouri, previously known as Fairy Cave [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
10-656: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fairy Cave (Jiangxi) The Xianren Cave ( Chinese : 仙人洞 , Xiānréndòng ), together with the nearby Diaotonghuan ( Chinese : 吊桶环 , Diàotǒnghuán ) rock shelter , is an archaeological site in Dayuan Township ( 大源乡 ), Wannian County in the Jiangxi province, China and a location of historically important discoveries of prehistoric pottery shards that bears evidence of early rice cultivation. The cave's name refers to
15-575: The Last Glacial Period . The carbon 14 datation was established by carefully dating surrounding sediments. Many of the pottery fragments had scorch marks, suggesting that the pottery was used for cooking. These early pottery containers were made well before the invention of agriculture (dated to 10,000 to 8,000 BC), by mobile foragers who hunted and gathered their food during the Late Glacial Maximum. This Jiangxi location article
20-495: The legendary Chinese enlightened people, the Xian "immortals". The cave is 7 m (23.0 ft) high, 11 m (36.1 ft) wide, and 14 m (45.9 ft) deep. A 2012 publication in the Science journal announced that the earliest pottery yet known anywhere in the world was found at this site dating by radiocarbon to between 20,000 and 19,000 years before present , at the end of
25-428: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairy_Cave&oldid=1129175507 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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