The oldest Pottery Neolithic (PN) culture of northeastern Iran: First absolute dating from eastern Mazandaran plains

• Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti, Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: r.abbasnejad@umz.ac.ir

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, I.R. Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1365-8904

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• Xinying Zhou ,

  Roles Formal analysis

  ¶‡ XZ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China

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• Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti, Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, I.R. Iran

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