Pit firing is the oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000 BCE, while the earliest known kiln...
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baked beans. The earliest forms of pottery were made from clays that were fired at low temperatures, initially in pit-fires or in open bonfires. They were...
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kill you.” Bowen was noting that “kill” and “kiln” are homophones. Pit fired pottery was produced for thousands of years before the earliest known kiln...
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ceramic artists Pit fired pottery Edgar Lee Hewett Antiquities Act Peckham, Stewart (1990). From This Earth: The Ancient Art of Pueblo Pottery. Santa Fe: Museum...
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A clay pit is a quarry or mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where...
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Dedham Pottery was an American art pottery company opened by the Robertson Family in Dedham, Massachusetts during the American arts & crafts movement...
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Horse hair raku (category Types of pottery decoration)
after the ware cools. Although preparation is similar to pit fired pottery and other primitive firing techniques, horsehair raku is generally considered an...
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earliest known Korean pottery dates back to around 8000 BC, and evidence of Mesolithic Pit–Comb Ware culture (or Yunggimun pottery) is found throughout...
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be rubbed onto the pot as well. Prior to contact, pottery was usually open-air fired or pit fired; precontact Indigenous peoples of Mexico used kilns...
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Comb Ceramic (redirect from Jeulmun pottery)
Comb Ceramic or Pit-Comb Ware (in Europe), Jeulmun pottery or Jeulmun vessel (in Korea) is a type of pottery subjected to geometric patterns from a comb-like...
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moulds, fire pits, lamps, and stands for holding round vessels, which were all commonly used in the Egyptian household. Other types of pottery served ritual...
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Saggar (redirect from Saggar Fired Pottery)
It is a ceramic boxlike container used in the firing of pottery to enclose or protect ware being fired inside a kiln. The name may be a contraction of...
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Black-on-black ware (category Native American pottery)
21st-century pottery tradition developed by Puebloan Native American ceramic artists in Northern New Mexico. Traditional reduction-fired blackware has...
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phases of farming with sites in Western Asia. Pottery prepared by sequential slab construction, circular fire pits filled with burnt pebbles, and large granaries...
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Earthenware (category Pottery)
("today" being 1962). Pit fired earthenware dates back to as early as 29,000–25,000 BC, and for millennia, only earthenware pottery was made, with stoneware...
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after the typical ornamentation of its pottery: horizontal rows of pits pressed into the body of the pot before firing. Though some vessels are flat-bottomed...
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a pottery factory. In 1982 Uematsu moved to the city of Iga, where he built his own wood and kerosene fueled kiln and began experimenting with pit-fired...
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Restaurant ware (category Pottery)
1950 to 1956 Anchor Hocking produced Fire King Jadeite ware that was aimed at catering establishments . Buffalo Pottery was founded in Buffalo, New York in...
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He is known for pioneering a process in which he hand-built a vessel, pit-fired it, deliberately broke it into shards, randomly painted both sides of...
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Barro negro pottery ("black clay") is a style of pottery from Oaxaca, Mexico, distinguished by its color, sheen and unique designs. Oaxaca is one of few...
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to c. 10...
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Neolithic sites containing pit-houses, earthen fortifications such as embankments and ditches, and later innovations such as pottery. Eight fortified sites...
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Martinez pit firing blackware pottery at P'ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico (c.1920) Julian and Maria Martinez decorating pottery, c.1912...
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Neolithic (redirect from Pottery Neolithic Age)
Age". 7 August 2015. Feldman, Keffie. "Ain-Ghazal (Jordan) Pre-pottery Neolithic B Period pit of lime plaster human figures". Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology...
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to c. 12...
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Raku ware (category Art pottery)
Raku ware (楽焼, raku-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies, most often in the form of chawan tea bowls. It...
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oval pit, with corpse laid down straight (extended), head northwards amidst pottery. In one pit a copper mirror was found among these objects. Pits were...
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9th millennium BC (section Pottery and dating systems)
was still hand-built, often by means of coiling, and pit fired. The first chronological pottery system was the Early, Middle and Late Minoan framework...
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A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions...
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Herxheim (archaeological site) (category Linear Pottery culture)
people of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) culture in Neolithic Europe. The site is often compared to that of the Talheim Death Pit and Schletz-Asparn,...
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