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Odai Yamamoto I site in Aomori Prefecture currently has the oldest pottery in Japan. Excavations in 1998 uncovered forty-six earthenware fragments which have been dated as early as 14,500 BCE (ca 16,500 BP); this places them among the earliest pottery currently known. [2] This appears to be plain, undecorated pottery.
The pottery tradition at Pedra Pintada in Brazil represents the oldest known ceramics in the Americas. [1] Dating back to 5630 BCE, this same tradition continued for 2500 years. Ceramics from the Taperinha site near Santarém, Brazil date back to 5130 BCE and include sand-tempered bowls and cooking vessels resembling gourds.
Pottery shards found during the rebuilding of a private residence in 1998 were submitted for radiocarbon dating by the Aomori Prefectural Board of Education, and were found to have been produced 16,500 years ago, making it the oldest known pottery in the world at that time.
The oldest pottery in the world outside of east Asia can be found in Africa. In 2007, Swiss archaeologists discovered pieces of some of the oldest pottery in Africa at Ounjougou in the central region of Mali, dating to at least 9,400 BC. [ 6 ]
Humans have been occupying the site since at least 30,000 years ago [2] Pottery discovered at this site dates back to around 12,700 years ago and are among the oldest found in the world. [3] [4] In June 2024 a government panel recommended the site be designated as what would be one of just 64 special historic sites in Japan. [5]
A 2012 publication in the Science journal announced that the earliest pottery yet known anywhere in the world was found at this site dating by radiocarbon to between 20,000 and 19,000 years before present, at the end of the Last Glacial Period. [2] [3] The carbon 14 datation was established by carefully dating surrounding sediments. [3]
It was found at the Paleolithic site Dolní Věstonice in the Moravian basin south of Brno, in the base of Děvín Mountain in what is today the Czech Republic. This figurine and a few others from locations nearby are the oldest known ceramic articles in the world.
The toryumon (bean-pattern) pottery is thought to be one of the oldest stages of pottery in Japan, and is a thin, deep bowl-shaped vessel with a slightly inward-curving rim, with small bean-sized pieces of clay regularly affixed using a linear applique technique to the outside, which is where its name comes from. [3]