c. 20,000 BCE
Technology
East Asia
Pottery vessels
Cooking pots from Xianrendong Cave, made by foragers long before farming.
Why it mattered
Containers that could be heated turned gathered plants into digestible food.
Stone Age
20,000 BCE
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