The pottery wheel was invented 3000 BC .Both of these hand-building methods are still practiced today.In Japan, Jomon pottery was made this way starting about 10,000 years ago. Mesopotamia and China, the potter's wheel appeared. These disks mounted on a pivot or axle, were rotated by hand. A stone potter's wheel found at the Mesopotamian city of Ur in modern-day Iraq has been dated to about 3129 BC but fragments of wheel-thrown pottery of an even earlier date have been recovered in the same area. However, southeast Europe and China have also been claimed as possible places of origin. v The pottery wheel is a machine is used to form a round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming the excess body from dried ware
