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The Jōmon pottery (縄文土器, Jōmon doki) is a type of ancient earthenware pottery which was made during the Jōmon period in Japan. The term "Jōmon" ( 縄文 ) means "rope-patterned" in Japanese, describing the patterns that are pressed into the clay.
After 2500 BCE, shards of some of the oldest pottery in the region entered the archaeologic record. Known as Stallings Fiber Tempered Pottery, the bowls were tempered with Spanish moss, which left a porous surface after firing. [7] Fragments of the fiber tempered pottery have been found across Stallings Island.
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]
Europe's oldest pottery, dating from circa 6700 BC, was found on the banks of the Samara River in the middle Volga region of Russia. [101] These sites are known as the Yelshanka culture. The early inhabitants of Europe developed pottery in the Linear Pottery culture slightly later than the Near East, circa 5500–4500 BC. In the ancient Western ...
Yuchanyan is an early Neolithic cave site in Dao County (Daoxian), Hunan, China.The site yielded sherds of ceramic vessels and other artifacts which were dated by analysis of charcoal and bone collagen, giving a date range of 17,500 to 18,300 years old for the pottery. [2]
As the culture recovered Sub-Mycenaean pottery finally blended into the Protogeometric style, which begins Ancient Greek pottery proper. [citation needed] The rise of vase painting saw increasing decoration. Geometric art in Greek pottery was contiguous with the late Dark Age and early Archaic Greece, which saw the rise of the Orientalizing period.
The Kofun cluster gives its name to Inaridai pottery, the oldest pottery type in the Kantō region. [3] The Inaridai No. 1 Kofun and the Inaridai Kofun group are found in the Kanto loam layer. This layer has both early Jomon pottery types like Inaridai, Haijima, and Tado I and other artifacts. [3] It is also used as a categorization for figurines.
It is believed that either the Dipylon inscription or the Nestor's Cup is the oldest known alphabetic Greek inscription. The Nestor Cup, which also bears a verse inscription, was found in an excavation at the ancient Greek colony of Pithekoussai, on the island of Ischia, in Italy. It is thought to be of equal age with the Dipylon inscription or ...