==East Asia==Although pottery figurines are found from earlier periods in Europe, the oldest pottery vessels come from East Asia, with finds in China and Japan, then still linked by a land bridge, and some in what is now the Russian Far East, providing several from between 20,000 and 10,000 BCE, although the vessels were simple utilitarian objects.
Obstaja več drugih vrst tradicionalnih ploščic, ki niso nastale v proizvodnji, na primer majhne, skoraj mozaične, svetlo obarvane "zellij" ploščice v Maroku.