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 …
Some East Asian & Middle Eastern cultures were harvesting & storing wild grain well before agriculture. Grains and other seeds are vulnerable to vermin. And many other kinds of food (e.g. a gel-like mash of dried fish, berries, etc.) were made and stored by some pre-ag cultures.
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I have the memory, srry no citation, of Alcibiades hiding in a grainary shortly before his murder in e. Turkey in 404 b.c. No pots but a clever building design to prevent rodents
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