Cave Find Pushes Back Dates of Early Pottery (7 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Cave Find Pushes Back Dates of Early Pottery (7 of 8)

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This is a pottery fragment from Xianrendong, east section 1B. For more information, please see figure S1.6 in the Supporting Online Material. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 29, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. X. Wu at Peking University in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China."

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