在乌鲁克伊安娜考古遗址的第四个千年的早期，出现了一种这个过程中最具特色的陶器风格，也就是所谓的斜边碗。

In an early fourth-millennium level of the Eanna archaeological site at Uruk, a pottery style appears that is most characteristic of this process, the so-called beveled-rim bowl.

youdao

我们根本没料到居然会出现那么早期的陶器。

We don't really expect to find pottery quite as early as that.'

youdao

比最早期绳纹盆晚了几千年，在中东与北非出现了当地第一批陶器，而在美洲，那是还要再晚几千年的事。

The first POTS known from the Middle East and North Africa were made a few thousand years after the earliest Jomon POTS, and in the Americas it was a few thousands of years after that.

youdao

These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.

有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了

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