Earliest evidence for the use of pottery
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Craig, O. E.; Saul, H.; Lucquin, A.; Nishida, Y.; Taché, K.; Clarke, L.; Thompso
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Article
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2013
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Nature Publishing Group
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English
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Pottery was a hunter-gatherer innovation that first emerged in East Asia between 20,000 and 12,000 calibrated years before present (cal bp), towards the end of the Late Pleistocene epoch, a period of time when humans were adjusting to changing climates and new environments. Ceramic container technol