Not at the same time, but the reason we have any written evidence at all is that there was some kind of conflagration that produced a fire that baked clay into pottery.

虽然不是在同一时间,不过我们能发现这些可读记录,全靠这些意外的火灾,将那些粘土烧制成了陶器

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So it's important to realize the role of ceramics; they need to make storage jars that could be sealed very well and preserve the stuff for a very long time, and indeed, they did that.

从中希腊人意识到陶艺的重要性,他们需要烧制可以密封得很好的,可以用来长久保存食物的陶罐,他们也的确这样做了

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