According to the report published in the journal Science, the fragments are 2,000 years older than previously found pieces.
Experts believe the pieces belonged to a community of roving hunter-gatherers who used them in cooking some 20,000 years ago.
Radiocarbon analysis of the nearby sediment indicates that the pottery date to a time before the advent of agriculture and are older than other similar finds in hunter-gatherer contexts in China, Japan, and the Russian Far East.
Studies also showed that the cave where the pottery was found was likely used by human beings from about 29,000 years ago until 17,500 years ago. It was then abandoned and reoccupied from about 14,500 years ago until 12,000 years ago.
The team of scientists from Peking University, Boston University, Harvard University and Eberhard Karls University believe the earliest pottery found in the cave date back to about 20,000 years ago.
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