Region of origin groups crafts by the part of the world where each one is first recorded. Wikipedia records that "the more specialized crafts with high-value products tended to concentrate in urban centers and their practitioners formed craft guilds," so a craft's home region often shaped its whole later history. This grouping lets a visitor see which crafts share a common regional root.
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1. Pottery (Wikipedia)
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As of 2012, the earliest pottery vessels found anywhere in the world, dating to 20,000 to 19,000 years before the present, was found at Xianren Cave in the Jiangxi province of China.
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