Domesticated dogs and pottery appear to have both originated in East Asia. suspect dogs served as an alarm system for village-size territories and thereby allowed secure long-term food storage, thus the later invention of pottery. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4816135/pdf/cr2015147a.pdf …http://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6089/1696 …
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The spread of pottery parallels the spread of vermin rodents. Early pottery was likely a response to rats or mice gnawing through baskets to get at the food stored in early villages. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/26/096800 … http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/26/096800.full.pdf … http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/when-did-humans-settle-down-house-mouse-may-have-answer …https://www.palmstrading.com/native-american-pottery/native-seed-pots/ …
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Reading through those, I didn't find a reference to vermin rodents around this new date for the invention of pottery, 20K BCE. All the dates are far later. Yes? Is it there?
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Per "Evolutionary history of the brown rat" the strain of that spread with trade (i.e. a vermin strain) existed uniquely in SE Asia until c. 3600 YA. Its ancestors thus lived there when pottery was invented c. 20K BCE. That they had evolved into vermin by then is my prediction.
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