Pottery cooked from the start  Ancient Japanese hunter-gatherers
made ceramic fish cookers before rise of farming  By Bruce
Bower, 13:07 PM April 10, 2013  Ancient leftovers indicate that
the earliest pottery was used by hunter-gatherers for cooking,
thousands of years before farming communities began heating
their food in vessels.  Chemical analyses of charred food
clinging to pottery fragments from sites across Japan indicate
that hunter-gatherers who lived there between 15,300 and 11,200
years ago cooked freshwater or marine animals in ceramic
vessels, say bioarchaeologist Oliver Craig of the University of
York in England and his colleagues....  Source URL:
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