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Listen to part of a lecture in an anthropology class.
請聽人類學課上的部分內容。
OK, today we are going to be moving on and we’re going to be talking about early pottery.
好的，我們繼續往下講，我們今天要講的是早期陶器。
But rather than me just giving you a broad overview of how pots or ceramics vessels were developed and used in different regions of the world,
但是我不會僅僅給你們寬泛地概述一下世界上不同地區是如何發展出并使用陶罐或者陶器的，
we’re gonna consider a specific example, a case study.
而是我們要一起來思考一個具體的例子，進行一次案例研究。
And we’re going to focus on ceramic cooking vessels from just one part of the world.
而且我們要關注的只是世界上一個地區的陶器炊具。
So the question I want to look at today concerns the use of ceramic cooking vessels, clay pots, in the Arctic during ancient times.
所以今天我想討論的問題和古代時期北極地區陶器炊具——陶土罐的使用有關。
Why were they developed and used there?
為什么當地人會發明出并使用陶土罐呢？
So, to begin with, we don’t know for sure when human being first started creating pottery, but we have evidence of it from over 15,000 years ago.
那么，首先，我們不確定人類最初開始制作陶罐是什么時候，但是我們有15000多年前的證據，
And in the Arctic, ceramic cooking pots didn’t appear there until some 2500 years ago.
陶器炊具直到2500年前才出現在北極地區。
Now, it’s not surprising that they appeared relatively late there.
它們在那里出現得相對較晚并不意外。
In fact, what’s been something of a mystery is why they were used at all, in the Arctic, I mean. Ken?
事實上，讓人想不通的是他們究竟為什么要使用陶器，我是說在北極地區，Ken？
