Burned crusts of food on a pot used by early hunter-gatherers in northeastern Europe about 7500 years agoEkaterina Dolbunova/British Museum
Posted on 01/04/2023 9:24:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Broken, charred and still crusted with nearly 8000-year-old food, the remnants of ancient pottery found across northern Eurasia wouldn’t be mistaken for fine china. But the advent of this durable technology—used to cook and store abundant plant and animal resources—was a huge step forward for hunter-gatherers in this part of the globe. It was also home-grown, new research suggests.
For decades, researchers believed pottery arrived in Europe along with agriculture and domesticated animals, as part of a “package” of technologies that spread northward from Anatolia beginning about 9000 years ago. Pots found in Northern Europe dating around the same time were thought to be mere knockoffs by hunter-gatherers copying their more sophisticated farmer neighbors, says Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist at the University of Göttingen who was not involved with the new research...
Beginning about 20,000 years ago, the know-how needed to make and use pottery spread among groups of hunter-gatherers in the Far East. This containers replaced less durable vessels made of hide and skin, and were better able to withstand fire than wood bowls. Starting about 7900 years ago, clay pots became common from the Ural Mountains to southern Scandinavia within just a few centuries.
To map pottery’s spread, Rowan McLaughlin, an archaeologist at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and colleagues analyzed broken shards collected from 156 sites around the Baltic Sea and across the European part of the former Soviet Union—many stored in museums in modern-day Russia and Ukraine. By sampling burned crusts of food stuck to the broken pots—remnants of bygone meals—they were able to get hundreds of new radiocarbon dates.
(Excerpt) Read more at science.org ...
Burned crusts of food on a pot used by early hunter-gatherers in northeastern Europe about 7500 years agoEkaterina Dolbunova/British Museum
The science is settled. They also had black skin and lived in
harmony until whites appeared. They’ve issued their proclamations. Do not question it.
lol
To carry the 🔥 Fire
and water to put it Out.
And clay is all over the place. Making simple fired pots is pretty easy.
Evidently they eschewed meats and were the first kale engineers.
Did they use bongs?......................
had to do something with all that bear grease!
It did say in the article it was “home grown”. Guess they hadn’t invented dispensaries yet.
Now days hunter-gatherers have a new meaning loot and shoot.
Thousands of years before pots, cooking up meat in water was accomplished in skins tied up and suspended from a robust tripod.
If they eat way too many beans, it’s Toot and Scoot.
Yep
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