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.
FISHY FINDS Ancient Japanese pottery, represented by this vessel from around 15,000 years ago, has yielded chemical evidence that hunter-gatherers once used such containers to cook fish.
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