01 June 2009

World's oldest pottery found

Examples of pottery found in a cave at Yuchanyan in China's Hunan province may be the oldest known to science.

By determining the fraction of a type, or isotope, of carbon in bone fragments and charcoal, the specimens were found to be 17,500 to 18,300 years old.

Note this pottery was made some 12,000 years before some people think the earth was created. Perhaps it was brought here by aliens...

2 comments:

  1. Note also that most folks who think the Earth is 6000 years old don't buy the testing methods that show stuff is older than that. Not that they are subject matter experts, but that's the routine arguement against such evidence.

    By the way, I think your blog is easily one of the best on the internet in terms of a general purpose interesting stuff blog. I really appreciate that you go to the time and effort to make it.

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  2. Thanks for the compliment, Scott. I'm probably like most bloggers in having days when I think WTF am I spending time doing this when it's a gorgeous summer day outside. But then I just chew through the leather straps and get to work...

    I'm hoping when I get older and (more) senile I will have forgotten all of this stuff and then I can just log on as a reader rather than a blogger and read it all again starting from page 1, and by the time I reach the end, I can start over again...

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