In Indonesia, the ceramic has been known since the Neolithic era, estimated time span ranging from 2500 BC-1000 BC. This relic is estimated much influenced by immigrants from Southeast Asia such as: knowledge of marine, agriculture and animal husbandry. The tools in the form of pottery and enameled wood leather garments.
Human needs in daily life always changes according to the times. Initially humans make tools for their needs, ranging from the making of stone axes. As in Sumatra found fragments of stoneware pot on the Mount Leather Shells.
Despite the small pottery shards and pieces but have seen any real evidence to make containers out of clay. Manufacturing techniques are done by hand, and for compacting and smoothing used a hard object like a board. How to decorate is done by emphasizing a carved wood, or pressing the rope, bamboo, fish spines, and so on, on the ceramic surface (raw) after completion of the formation.
This method is most often committed by traditional artisans in various regions in the country. On the south coast of Java, precisely between Yogyakarta and Pacitan found pottery shards decorated with impressions of woven or woven like the weaving that is made in Sumba. In areas Melolo (P. Sumba) also found stoneware pot containing human bones.
This prehistoric relics are also found in the region of Banyuwangi, Coconut Two-Bogor, Kalumpang and Minanga in Sulawesi, Gilimanuk in Bali and also the discovery of archaeological remains at around Borobudur and in Trowulan-Mojokerto. Including relic of Majapahit Kingdom (16th century AD) found much the bricks and tiles of burnt clay as a building material, but also objects such as piggy banks.
Fragments of pottery were also found at the site Batujaya, in Karawang, West Java. It was also found fragments made of terracotta. In accordance marking the pottery-pottery there on the 3rd or 4th century AD.
