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  2. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Sherds have been found in China and Japan from a period between 12,000 and perhaps as long as 18,000 years ago. [5] [74] As of 2012, the earliest pottery vessels found anywhere in the world, [75] dating to 20,000 to 19,000 years before the present, was found at Xianren Cave in the Jiangxi province of China. [76] [77]

  3. Wikipedia:Wikipedia records - Wikipedia

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    Oldest page that was created in the Wikipedia namespace and not moved from mainspace: , first recorded edit 27 January 2002 but probably created the day before [aj] Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001 [ak] [al] File: Tetris-branch.png [am] on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002 [an] [ao]

  4. Cookware and bakeware - Wikipedia

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    Stockpots are typically measured in volume (6–36 L). Stock pots come in a large variety of sizes to meet any need from cooking for a family to preparing food for a banquet. A specific type of stockpot exists for lobsters, and Hispanic cultures use an all-metal stockpot, usually called a caldero, to cook rice. [26] [page needed]

  5. Pottery in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Commonly, it consist of domestic forms like cooking pots, and it dates started from 300 BCE and lasted till 1000 CE. But this type of ware also is widely distributed in other places in India. It is found at Baroda, Timberva (Surat), Vadnagar, Vala, Prabhas, Sutrapada, Bhandaria, and many other places. The use of this pottery continued for many ...

  6. Timeline of materials technology - Wikipedia

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    1938 – The process for making poly-tetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon discovered by Roy Plunkett 1939 – Dislocations in metals confirmed by Robert W. Cahn 1947 – First germanium point-contact transistor invented

  7. List of coin hoards in China - Wikipedia

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    This hoard of unearthed silver ingots was found inside of a pot found at a depth of 0.3 meters below the surface. [34] Based on this, it is speculated that this is a batch of silver ingots that was originally stored in a cellar. [34] This hoard contains a total of 31 silver ingots, with a total weight of 41.2 catties. [34]

  8. Potash - Wikipedia

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    Potash (/ ˈ p ɒ t æ ʃ / POT-ash) includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. [1] The name derives from pot ash, plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the Industrial Era. The word potassium is derived from potash. [2]

  9. Bronocice pot - Wikipedia

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    The pot was discovered between 1974 and 1976 during the archaeological excavation of a large Neolithic settlement in Bronocice, ca. 50 km to north east of Kraków.The excavations were carried out between 1974 and 1980 by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences and the State University of New York in the United States.