* Astronomy

Ceramic Fragments Point to Artistry in the Ice Age

Thirty-six fragments of fired clay, excavated in the Vela Spila cave on an island off the Adriatic coast, make up the second-largest collection found so far of the earliest human experiments with ceramic art. They are 15,000 to 17,500 years old - the first European evidence of ceramic art after the ice sheets stopped spreading.
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