Why Scientists Are Cooking Ancient Pots

Unlocking the mysteries of ancient ceramics is a bit complicated. Radiometric dating tells us the age of the clay, but when was it first shaped by a human? We can find out by blasting it with heat again! Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/luminescenc... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/... https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Jou... https://science.jrank.org/pages/1952/... https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c... https://www.dri.edu/labs/dri-luminesc... https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... http://daybreaknuclear.us/tlpaper.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-4403(75)... Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:G6... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vo...