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The Earliest Surviving Pottery From Japan

Circa 16000 BCE
Jomon pot. Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution.

Jomon pot. Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution.

Early humans may have made bags from skin long ago. By around 24,000 BCE they were weaving plant fibers to make cords and perhaps baskets. Some of the oldest known pottery, from Japan’s Jomon culture, Lake Anenuma, Honshu, Japan, are about 18,000 years old.

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