‘Oldest pottery’ found in China
Examples of pottery found in a cave at Yuchanyan in China’s Hunan province may be the oldest known to science.
By determining the fraction of a type, or isotope, of carbon in bone fragments and charcoal, the specimens were found to be 17,500 to 18,300 years old.
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[The scientific paper itself is online with open access, at
pnas.org]
[BTW, the new find displaces the “oldest” claim previously held by pottery found in Japan.]