Examples of pottery found in a cave at Yuchanyan in China's Hunan province may be the oldest known to science.By determining the fraction of a type, or isotope, of carbon in bone fragments and charcoal, the specimens were found to be 17,500 to 18,300 years old.
Note this pottery was made some 12,000 years before some people think the earth was created. Perhaps it was brought here by aliens...