Ceramic is a product of the oldest crafts in recorded human civilization and culture. According to history, ceramics are well known by people in East Africa 2.6 million years ago (Paleolithic Age). But the development of ceramic spread in almost all regions of the world just happened at the time of the Neolithic or approximately 15 thousand to 10 thousand years ago.
Evidence of this can be seen in the discoveries of ancient objects that are embedded in the soil, where appropriate marking of archaeological performed reinforce the notion. Type of object it is found ceramic objects such as containers: jars, drinking utensils, tools and other offerings; in addition to the discovery of objects made of stone.
People at that time had mastered a technology to transform a pile of fragile soils into products that can be used to facilitate life.
What is even more amazing when it is material is a ceramic material that is being developed in the dimensions of technology because of its unique properties and superior materials that are not owned by another.
Walalupun different technologies with ceramic tile made in earlier times, but both are in principle the same material in its manufacture. Ceramic materials have survived into continuous human development during
thousands and even millions of years.
Given these facts, it can be said that the ceramic is a marker of human civilization. The level of human progress from era to era can be seen from the level of advancement of ceramic technology that era.
