Food residues offer a taste of pottery’s diverse origins in East Asia
Some hunter-gathers used pots to cook fish, while others served up animals such as sheep
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Pieces of cooking pots (shown) made by one ancient East Asian hunter-gatherer group contain chemical residues of fish such as salmon. Those people invented pottery independently of other hunter-gatherers in the region, scientists say.
Yanshina Oksana