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Oldest African ceramic
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Archaeologists from Geneva University have discovered what they claim is Africa's oldest ceramic, dated at around 9,400BC, in eastern Mali. "It's a tiny, ornate fragment that was made with great skill and the use of fire" - ethno-archaeologist Anne Mayor in Bamako, the Malian capital...
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Ceramic art
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Ceramic Fragments Point to Artistry in the Ice Age Thirty-six fragments of fired clay, excavated in the Vela Spila cave on an island off the Adriatic coast, make up the second-largest collection found so far of the earliest human experiments with ceramic art. They are 15,000 to 17,500 years old - the...
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Oldest known pottery
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Researchers in China have dug up the oldest known pottery. How ancient is it? The late Palaeolithic: 14,000 to 21,000 years old, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The pieces were most likely made and used by early foragers in the Yangzi Basin in t...
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