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Also Made in China: The First Pottery

posted: 03 June 2009 05:44 pm ET

China gave the world gunpowder, paper, the compass and porcelain. Pottery, too, it seems.

Scientists found remains of ceramics in a cave in the Hunan provice. The shards were dated to between 15,400 and 18,300 years ago, older than any known elsewhere.

Remains in the cave also revealed what the Paleolithic people ate: birds, boar, fish, tortoise and other small animals. Plus, of course, rice.

(The oldest known noodles were also found in China.)

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