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Some time during this period, people started making simple plates and pots out of clay. The plates would, at first, have been made by putting some clay in a small round hole in the ground and then heating this clay to a very high temperature. Once the clay had cooled you had a simple plate. Pots and beakers were made the same way. The people may also have made wooden plates too but these would have rotted away so archaeologists will have found no trace. That is why pottery is so important for archaeologists because it doesn't rot and can survive in the earth for thousands of years. Food was still cooked on or in an open fire and, until plates were made, people ate using their fingers. Soup was not that popular obviously. Meat was carved off the animals with a flint knife. For starch they would have boiled the root of bull rushes (in the picture and looking like leeks to me). Peas and beans were also grown and eaten. Birch syrup (remember the trees in our timeline last week) would be used as a sweetener (who discovered this and why was he/she drinking a tree). I do think these people were so clever to find out what they could eat, how they could make plates and what to add to make food taste better. Animals were in good supply, there was no need for shopping (hunting) now and people had home delivery; sort of pick and collect. People also began to grow wheat and barley and discovered they could make the grains into flour and then bread.

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