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Humans Made Pottery Long Before They Farmed — And Archaeology Is Catching Up
For more than a century, archaeology taught a simple rule: pottery belonged to farmers. Clay vessels were seen as a technological by-product of agriculture, sedentary life, and the rise of early civilizations.That rule is now collapsing — not because the evidence is new, but because archaeology is finally catching up to it. Long before crops…
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DNA Study Reveals the True Origins and Ritual Secrets of Shimao, China’s Enigmatic Neolithic City
For decades, the stone walls of Shimao—one of the largest and most imposing Neolithic settlements in northern China—have guarded a silence that archaeology alone could not fully break. Now, a landmark genomic study published in Nature has begun to decode that silence, revealing who the people of Shimao were, how their society worked, and why…