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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 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]
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 following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
These pieces were created between ten thousand and five thousand years ago, [2] making them some of the oldest known pieces of African pottery. [3] These people lived during the African humid period in semi-permanent and permanent settlements around the numerous bodies of water that existed in the now-arid regions of North and East Africa. [ 1 ]
The 400-year-old pottery workshop as seen from above. Montreuil-sur-Mer, also known as Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is along the northern coast of France and a roughly 150-mile drive north from Paris.
The oldest known alphabetic writing has been found etched onto finger-length clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria. ... intact pottery, cookware, and a spearhead. Amid these artefacts ...
Pottery and porcelain (陶磁器, tōjiki, also yakimono (焼きもの), or tōgei (陶芸)) is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. [1] Types have included earthenware, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, and blue-and-white ware. Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic ...