Mystery pottery points to 6,500-year-old unknown culture that may have lived alongside one of oldest civilizations in Americas

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The find provides new insights into the origin of pottery technology in the region, a team of archaeologists said.

Researchers have found fragments of 6,500-year-old pottery in Ecuador from an unknown culture that may have lived alongside one of the oldest civilizations in the Americas.

These dates are intriguing, the researchers say, because they coincide with the early stages of the Valdivia culture, one of the oldest known settled cultures in the Americas. The ceramics of the Valdivia are renowned for being the oldest known pottery in the Western Hemisphere, according to the National Museum of the American Indian

'The mass emergence of pottery was a kind of technical breakthrough associated with many aspects of human life and the level of economic development in different parts of the globe," Alexander Popov, leader of the expedition to Real Alto and an author of the study from the Far Eastern Federal University, Russia, said in a statement.

 

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Is that Egyptian stuff in America. Near chicago There’s pyramids in America. Check the Grand Canyon fym

This is gonna freak out the 'New Earth' theory peeps. They claim a very young 5-6 thousand year old planet. 🌍

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