[martin_fierro]

PaleoPing

[blam]

GGG Ping.

I believe the oldest pottery ever found comes from Japan.

[festus]

How long till this gets blown up by a Jihadi ?

[blam]

Pottery In Prehistory

Jomon - Oldest Pottery

First vessels in Incipient Jomon Period (12,700-10,000 B.P.), Japan
Starts as fiber-tempered
By Initial Jomon period (10,000-6000 B.P.), surfaces decorated with cord impressions or rouletting Generally thin-walled, small, conical (cooking?) pots Flamboyant shapes and decorations in Middle Jomon (4500-4000 B.P.)

Oldest Pottery Elsewhere

China, 11,000 B.P.: porous, thick-walled, grit-tempered plainware; cordmarked after 8000 B.P.
Africa, 9500 B.P.: sand/grit-tempered simple forms, some decorated with cord impressions or rocker stamping
Western Asia, 8300 B.P.: fine and coarse wares, some fiber-tempered; generally utilitarian
South America, ca. 7000 B.P., small sand-tempered bowls; fiber-tempered wares starting 6000 B.P.
Central America, 5000 B.P., influences from south (?); not in Mesomerican until after 3800 B.P.
North America, 4500 B.P., fiber-tempered basins and bowls in SE; much later in SW (2400 B.P.) and Midwest (2700 B.P.)

Jomon style cord-pottery has been found in Olmec sites in Mexico.

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7000 year-old house at site MR11 on Marawah island

7000 year old house discovered at site MR11 on Marawah island

7000 year old pottery vessel discovered at site MR11 on Marawah island
Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey

[FierceDraka]

Now watch them dynamite the site of the dig because it was built by infidel pagans instead of Muslims.

[SunkenCiv]

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