Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

"This volume was generated from a series of papers given at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 2000"--Acknowledgements. Introduction: Themes in early pottery research / Rebecca Saunders, ...

MAYNOOTH, IRELAND—Hunter-gatherers knew how to make and use pottery to store and cook food, according to a Science Magazine report. It had been previously thought that pottery was developed by early ...

This is a pottery fragment from Xianrendong, west section 2A. For more information, please see figure S1.2 in the Supporting Online Material. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 29 ...