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New technique uses food residues to date prehistoric pottery

04 Jun 2020 Isabelle Dumé
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6000 year old prehistoric pottery from the Sahara. (Courtesy: Emmanuelle Casanova et al., Nature 580 506–510)
Tiny traces of food left in ancient clay pots can now be used to date archaeological objects thanks

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