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• Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone, and bone flutes China
• Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and Ain Ghazal Mediterranean
• First evidence of incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago in the Neolithic fertile crescent, Asia
• Japanese potters begin to decorate pottery cooking vessels
• Simple pottery traditions sometimes with cord impressions or other decorative markings Korea
• Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology Mexico
• c. 7000 BC: Earliest pottery in Ancient Near East
• c. 6200 BC: Mural painting or map from Çatalhöyük, an early civilized city that prospered by trading obsidian, Anatolia—modern Turkey.
• Artifacts of stone were supplemented by those of metal, and the crafts of basketry, pottery, weaving (Africa).
• Decorated, black-topped clay pots and vases; bone and ivory combs, figurines, and tableware, are found in great numbers (Africa).
• Jewelry of all types and materials (Africa).
• Objects began to be made not only with a function, but also with an aesthetic value. (Africa)

Padah-Lin Cave Painting

Decorated Ware Jar Depicting Ungulates and Boats with Human Figures Date: ca. 3500–3300 B.C. Geography: From Egypt Medium: Pottery, paint Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art

Standing female figure, ca. 2600–2400 b.c.; Early Cycladic II; Marble Gift of Christos G. Bastis, 1968 (68.148) Metropolitan Museum of Art

Basin c. 3000 B.C. Artist Unknown (Majiayao)(China) Earthenware with painted designs and burnished surface Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton 2003.200.1 Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Jiahu Bone Flute China