Table 2 Percentages of fiber-tempered cooking vessels and coarse-paste storage vessels in the Lower and Upper Qujialing periods

From: Chemical insights into pottery production and use at Neolithic Zoumaling earthen-walled town in China

Period

Paste

Vessel function

Counts

Percentage

Lower Qujialing N = 4

Fiber-tempered (n = 4)

cooking

4

100

others

0

0

Coarse-paste (n = 0)

 

0

0

Upper Qujialing N = 72

Fiber-tempered (n = 46)

cooking

36

78.3

storage

8

17.4

others

2

4.3

Coarse-paste (n = 26)

storage

17

65.4

cooking

2

7.7

others

7

26.9

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