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Pottery
- 1. Conclusions Drawn From Digging Pieceof Pot Presented By: Neha Deshpande 1
- 2. If we founda broken piece of pot while digging
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- 4. INTRODUCTION Pottery has beenaround since the ancient people roamed the earth. As one of the oldest human inventions, the practice of pottery has developed alongside civilization. The potter can decorate the clay body either before or after firing, however, some processes require the clay go through certain preparations in order to successfully create a piece of work. With kneading, a process which involves massaging the clay with your hands, it allows moisture within the clay to spread throughout the entire slab. When done correctly the clay will have even moisture content and you’re one step away from creating.
- 5. HISTORY:- • Sometime between6,000 and 4,000 BC, the first potter’s wheel was invented in Mesopotamia. This brought about a revolution in the way ancient people could create items out of clay. • While pottery had always had intrinsic artistic qualities, when the potter’s wheel arrived, it shifted the process even more. Instead of serving utilitarian purposes, it now served artistic ones. While the earliest types of items found by archaeologists were generally undecorated, unglazed, hand-formed clay vessels, by 6000 BC, places like the Middle East, China and Europe had developed a wide array of design techniques.
- 6. EARLY STAGES:- • Potteryhas been around since the ancient people roamed the earth. As one of the oldest human inventions, the practice of pottery has developed alongside civilization. The earliest ceramic objects have been dated as far back as 29,000 BC. One of the most popular pieces dated from this time period is The Venus of Dolni Vestonice, discovered in the Czech Republic. • The marks on the pot shows that it must be existed around years ago. By carbon dating method we can find the actual age of pot.
- 7. DISCOVERY OF FIRE:- Assoon as early humans developed fire, they discovered that heating these formed clay objects transformed them into a different material that was permanent and much more useful to them — mainly items like bowls, plates, and utensils for storing and preparing food. Pit Firing were used in early times. Firing times were short. The temperatures provided was in the region of 9000C.
- 8. WHEEL INVENTION:- The firstmechanical potter’s wheel wasn’t invented until the 19th century, so the first manual potter’s wheel was truly a lasting innovation.There are many ways to operate a potters wheel without electricity. For the most part, in ancient times, pottery wheels were turned manually, with the user kicking their feet to put it in motion. Other ways to spin a potters wheel included using a stick that is put in a hole at the top of the wheel and then turning it, or simply speeding it up by hand.
- 9. DEVELOPMENTS:- • As civilizationmade more advances, pottery has always advanced right alongside it, even assisting by helping people survive and providing them with a higher standard of living. • Because of its many utilitarian uses, pottery has been revered throughout history. Of course, over the centuries, it has developed into so much more than just functional ceramic items.
- 10. AMPHORA:- An amphora isa type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea. The size and shape have been determined from at least as early as the Neolithic Period. Amphora were used in vast numbers for the transport and storage of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine. They are most often ceramic but examples in metals and other materials have been found. Versions of the amphora were one of many shapes used in Ancient Greek Vase Painting.