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Aceramic societies usually used bark, basketry, gourds and leather for containers.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.archaeologywordsmith.com/lookup.php?terms=aceramic|title = Archaeology Wordsmith|website = www.archaeologywordsmith.com|access-date = 2016-03-07}}</ref> It is sometimes used to refer to a specific early [[Neolithic]] period before a culture develops [[Pottery|ceramics]], such as the Middle Eastern [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic A]], in which case it is a synonym of '''preceramic''' (or '''pre-pottery''').
It should be distinguished from the specific term '''Pre-Ceramic''', which is a period in many chronologies of the [[archaeology of the Americas]], typically showing some [[agriculture]] and developed [[textile]]s but no fired [[pottery]]. For example, in the [[Norte Chico civilization]] and other cultures of [[Peru]], the cultivation of [[cotton]] seems to have been very important in economic and power relations, from around 3200 BC. Here, [[Cotton Pre-Ceramic]] may be used as a period. The
"Aceramic" is also used to describe a culture at any time prior to its development of pottery as well as cultures that lack pottery altogether. A '''preceramic''' period is traditionally regarded as occurring in the early stage of the [[Neolithic]] period of a culture, but recent findings in Japan and China have pushed the origin of ceramic technology there well back into the [[Paleolithic]] era.
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