Andrew Millard wrote:
>We do have hunter-gathers using pottery in the Jomon culture of Japan for
>several thousand years, but not in Palaeolithic cultures (any culture
>which had pottery would probably not be labelled Palaeolithic!).  The
>Jomon is usually considered to be similar to the Mesolithic of Europe.
>
>On the other hand we do have farming cultures, notably the Pre-pottery
>Neolithic of the Near East, where there is clearly massive reliance on
>cereal crops but no pottery in which to cook them.  They clearly needed to
>cook their crops, but we have little idea of how they did it.

Could it be that they wrapped them in leaves and covered and baked them in
the ground with heated stones like for instance the Trobriand Islanders and
many others traditionally did? Would this leave any traces?

Staffan Lindeberg