Mysterious clay pots in China are 20,000 years old - baked 10,000 years before humans settled down and became farmers

Mysterious clay pots in China are 20,000 years old - baked 10,000 years before humans settled down and became farmers | Mail Online: "Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, according to archaeologists. Earlier theories have held that the invention of pottery happened during the period about 10,000 years ago when humans moved from being hunter-gathers to farmers."