Editing Pottery (section)

====Americas====
{{Main|Ceramics of indigenous peoples of the Americas}}
[[File:Sun God Effigy Lid, 500-700 AD, Maya culture, Mexico, Guatemala, or Belize, earthenware - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC01179.JPG|thumb|200px|Earthenware effigy of the Sun God. Maya culture, 500–700 CE]]
Most evidence points to an independent development of pottery in the Native American cultures, with the earliest known dates from Brazil, from 9,500 to 5,000 years ago and 7,000 to 6,000 years ago.<ref name="Roosevelt 1996 264–349"/> Further north in [[Mesoamerica]], dates begin with the [[Mesoamerican chronology#archaic|Archaic Era]] (3500–2000 BC), and into the [[Mesoamerican chronology#PreclaPreclassic Era or Formative Period|Formative period]] (2000 BC – AD 200). These cultures did not develop the stoneware, porcelain or glazes found in the Old World. [[Maya ceramics]] include finely painted vessels, usually beakers, with elaborate scenes with several figures and texts.  Several cultures, beginning with the [[Olmec]], made terracotta sculpture, and sculptural pieces of humans or animals that are also vessels are produced in many places, with [[Moche portrait vessel]]s among the finest.