12,000-Year-Old Pottery Found in Turkey May Rewrite History of Early Ceramics

12,000-Year-Old Pottery Found in Turkey May Rewrite History of Early Ceramics

Ancient clay fragments from Çemka Höyük in Turkey. Credit: Ergül Kodaş et al. / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have uncovered evidence of 12,000-year-old pottery that may rank among the earliest known ceramics in Southwest Asia. The discovery suggests that people were experimenting with clay vessels thousands of years before pottery became widely used across the region. The study, led by Ergül Kodaş and published in Antiquity, e…