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Pottery is the first synthetic material ever created by humans. The term refers to objects made of clay that have been fashioned into the desired shape, dried, and either fired or baked to fix their form.
- Cristian Violatti
By the end of the third millennium BCE it was being made in Central America, spreading to Panama by 2140 BCE, Costa Rica by 1890 BCE, southern Mexico (Purron tradition) by 1805 BCE, Guatemala by 1680 BCE, and northern Mexico (Chajil tradition) by 1600 BCE.
Clay-fired pots found in the Trans-Baikal province in southern Siberia, Russia: at Ust-Kyakhta (dating to 11,900 BCE), Ust-Karenga (11,800 BCE) and Studenoye 11,250 BCE. Era of Paleolithic art gives way to Mesolithic art .
- Early Development of Pottery
- Technical Sophistication in Pottery Production
- Dating Pottery & Archaeological Sites
Clay is abundant, cheap, and adaptable, which makes it convenient for human exploitation. Because usable clay is widely available, pottery was independently invented in many parts of the world at different times. The earliest recorded evidence of clay usage dates back to the Late Palaeolithic period in central and western Europe, where fired and un...
Open firing techniques were used to produce the earliest pottery. Through this method, temperatures could range from about 600 to about 800-900 degrees Celsius, which are relatively low temperatures. Japanese Jomon pottery (dated back to 13,000 years ago) and Middle Nile Egyptianvessels (from about 10,000 years ago) are some examples of pottery pro...
According to the context in which the pottery was found, there are several techniques that can be applied for dating pottery. Pottery can be dated based on a stratigraphic sequence: this means that during an excavation, archaeologists study the different layers of soil and analyse how the different objects found in them relate to one another. If th...
- Cristian Violatti
Nov 7, 2023 · The raw material that epitomizes Mesopotamian civilization is clay: in the almost exclusively mud-brick architecture and in the number and variety of clay figurines and pottery artifacts, Mesopotamia bears the stamp of clay as does no other civilization, and nowhere in the world but in Mesopotamia and the regions over which its influence was ...
The Bronocice pot (Polish: Waza z Bronocic) is a ceramic vase incised with one of the earliest known depictions of what may be a wheeled vehicle. It was discovered in the village of Bronocice near the Nidzica River in Poland. Attributed to the Funnelbeaker archaeological culture, radiocarbon tests dated the pot to the mid-fourth millennium BCE.
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Evidence of pottery making appears during the Early Neolithic period with the rise of agriculture and sedentary living. As villages develop into settled cultures, discrete ceramic traditions evolve that show a distinctive Chinese approach to form, decoration, and technique, leading to the identification of more than thirty Late Neolithic ...
