Early examples of fired earthenware or pots such as vases from classical Greece, ceramics from China and fired clay pots from Africa can be found in museums in every corner of the world. None, however, are as early as those produced by mankind’s first potters from Northern Japan.
Archeologists now know that a group of mans’ earliest ancestors, now designated as the Jomon people, were the first to fire clay pots, 16,500 years ago.