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  "id": 6343266,
  "title": "Did wildfires help spark the invention of pottery?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/did-wildfires-help-spark-the-invention-of-pottery",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-08T22:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-wildfires-pottery.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped create the conditions that led Neolithic communities to discover how fire could transform clay.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}