Unlike the Romans, the Barbarians did not build for posterity, and their story is told principally through displays of funerary jewellery and weaponry, with the odd cooking pot thrown in.

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Finding the world's oldest known cooking pot, even in pieces, is exciting.

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After years spent shelling peas, stringing beans, cutting the corn off the cob, peeling this and slicing that and then cooking everything in a big pot of water with a big a piece of pork until Tuesday, my mother thought Mr. Birdseye was a saint.

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Locals here in Assam and the neighboring states of Manipur and Nagaland add fresh chopped chilies to the pot when cooking curries.

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