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Some six to seven thousand years ago, Chinese craftsmen managed to manu- 3 facture pottery by firing clay. Definitely not more than thousand years later, the 4 Egyptians did the same (independently?). Throughout the successive millennia, both 5 regions refined this art to dazzling heights.
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Helsen, J.A., Missirlis, Y. (2010). A 7,000 Year Old Story: Ceramics. In: Biomaterials. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12532-4_9
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