Pottery reveals Ice Age hunter-gatherers’ taste for fish
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study which reports the earliest direct evidence for the use of ceramic vessels. Scientists carried out chemical analysis of food residues in pottery up to 15,000 years old from the late glacial period, the oldest pottery so far investigated.