The potter's wheel was probably invented in Mesopotamia by the 4th millennium BC, but spread across nearly all Eurasia and much of Africa, though it remained unknown in the New World until the arrival of Europeans.
Kulture, ki posebej opozarjajo s keramiko so kitajska, kretska, grška, perzijska, majevska, japonska in korejska kultura, kot tudi moderne zahodne kulture.