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Maybe fuelled by recent claims that #Neolithic hunters were too "simple" and thus not capable of cultural achievements, there seems to be a misunderstanding about the "#pottery" part in #PrePotteryNeolithic (PPN).
They actually *did* use vessels. Just other vessels.
A short 🧵:
They actually *did* use vessels. Just other vessels.
A short 🧵:
Well known and clearly associated with #PrePotteryNeolithic contexts are e.g. #StoneVessels from different places like #KörtikTepe in Turkey or #JerfElAhmar and #TellAbr in Syria as well as (often fragmented though) many more related sites (including Göbekli Tepe by the way).
Bringing up the #GöbekliTepe fragments since they illustrate why finding complete vessels is comparably rare: the material was too valuable to not re-use it.
@lauradietrich_, @odietrich_, & myself discussed the "afterlife" of such #StoneVessels here:
jensnotroff.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/ii.20_…
@lauradietrich_, @odietrich_, & myself discussed the "afterlife" of such #StoneVessels here:
jensnotroff.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/ii.20_…
Did some #ceramic prep work today I'd been putting off. We have some white clay & red ochre that I needed to process for natural slips & paints to apply to our #ceramics. I by no means processed as much as I'd like, but it was a start. 1/ #archaeology #pottery
The white clay, 1 of 2 we've found in the past few years, isn't ideal, having some small quartz & chert pea gravel, grit & course sand in it. I selected several small pieces after breaking up the main mass. 2/ #ceramics #archaeology #pottery
The clay crushed nicely, except for the screeeech! of quartz grit dragging across the grinding stone surface. I picked out most of the grit & sand, but it will need sieved. The entire batch probably should be liquefied, then drain off the clay. 3/ #ceramics #archaeology #pottery
In 1933, Marguerite Wildenhain and her husband Frans moved from Germany to the Netherlands and opened a pottery. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, she immigrated to the U.S. and taught at the @CACollegeofArts in Oakland. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain
Two years later in 1942, she was the first resident at Pond Farm, an art colony and refuge for European artists near Guerneville in the Russian River Valley of Northern California. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain
Although, the collaborative dissolved during the 1950s, Marguerite Wildenhain continued at Pond Farm, where she made studio ceramics and held annual summer workshops, teaching select students to master wheel-thrown pottery.
#CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain
#CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain
@MuseumLiverpool 1/13
The coarse earthenware pottery made in Liverpool during 18th C. looks a lot like pottery made elsewhere, but recent ID via elemental analysis shows that it reached plantations across the Atlantic, used for sugar refining and in the home.
Woodcut 1574 Jost Amman
#ArchMol21
The coarse earthenware pottery made in Liverpool during 18th C. looks a lot like pottery made elsewhere, but recent ID via elemental analysis shows that it reached plantations across the Atlantic, used for sugar refining and in the home.
Woodcut 1574 Jost Amman
#ArchMol21
@MuseumLiverpool 2/13
The abundant #pottery clay in the region led to a strong potting industry around Liverpool in the post-Medieval period, in places like Prescot and Rainford. Excavations of kiln sites show large quantities of black and brown-glazed earthenwares
#ArchMol21
The abundant #pottery clay in the region led to a strong potting industry around Liverpool in the post-Medieval period, in places like Prescot and Rainford. Excavations of kiln sites show large quantities of black and brown-glazed earthenwares
#ArchMol21
@MuseumLiverpool 3/13
In exchange for tobacco, sugar, and other products arriving from plantations in the Americas, merchants would ship all sorts of cargo out of Liverpool. This included pottery like pans, mugs, and sugarwares.
#ArchMol21
In exchange for tobacco, sugar, and other products arriving from plantations in the Americas, merchants would ship all sorts of cargo out of Liverpool. This included pottery like pans, mugs, and sugarwares.
#ArchMol21
1/n Thread for @VerdaVerum and @DoorEmby, on #pottery, and how one can tell the video (found on net, source unknown) is spliced together from three different videos, & creates a very fake, misleading conclusion.
2/n First: how to make something like the still below from the video? Cover a leaf in the wet glaze desired, the color in the video below being yellow/gold, wait for it to dry, place it carefully inside the bowl which has already been glazed with its own glaze, fire it in kiln.
3/n If feeling fancy, you could lay the leaf at the bottom of the bowl, then glaze the whole bowl. The leaf will burn away in the kiln, leaving a structural shape of the leaf, maybe expose a bit of the original stoneware. Point is, several ways to do it
As I recover from #COVID19 I remember the strength of my ancestors, esp my grandfather #DavidOhannessian, who mastered ceramic art in Ottoman Kutahya in the years before WW1, survived exile during the #ArmenianGenocide & founded the art of #Armenianceramics in Jerusalem in 1919
I tell his story in a book #FeastofAshes & share here a sample of his art, which changed the face of Jerusalem, where he carried over the Ottoman Kutahya ceramics tradition. This art continues to flourish today in the studios of several Armenian families. a.co/d/5sJrGkp
One of #DavidOhannessian’s most characteristic works in Jerusalem, the tiled triptych made for St John’s Ophthalmic Hospital in the 1920s, when it was renovated by #architect Austen St Barbe Harrison #Armenianceramics
For 2020 I'm going to try the one photo a day challenge. I'll reply tip this each day with a photo.
Marble Kaleidoscope.
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While I was in #Odisha, it was fascinating to spend time with the potters of Goudaguda village in #Koraput. There are about 20-30 potters in the colony and it’s possible to watch them at work. This is the start of the #pottery process, mixing up the clay.
This makes it easy to pick up the clay.
Mixing the clay is a very physically demanding process!
#Kumharwada in #Dharavi is a Potter’s colony. Abbas bhai said the #British had settled all potters here since 1921.We visited his #pottery workshop&studio yesterday. He and his brother Yusuf bhai are carrying on 1000years old legacy of #potterymaking in the #Indiansubcontinent
They said they’re originally from #Sindh &for generations have only known pottery making!It would interest you to know that this #creative form existed across early #civilisations globally.This particular group of potters can be linked to the #IndusValleyCivilisation &before
They make pots of all sizes mainly for hotels.I’d met him at a #museum I worked in.yesterday some #young #designers got to spend time with themThat’s #knowledgesharing ain’t it?#handmade #mumbai #art #culture #heritage #history #craft #clay #destress #storiesofindia #travelwithme
1. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು 820 ಶಿಲಾಯುಗದ ನೆಲೆಗಳು ದೊರೆತಿವೆ, ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ 600 ಸಮಾಧಿಗಳು ಮತ್ತು 220 ವಾಸದ ನೆಲೆಗಳು.
#StoneAgeKarnataka
#StoneAgeKarnataka
2. ರಾಯಚೂರಿನ ಲಿಂಗಸೂಗೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಕ್ಕ ಒಂದು ಶಿಲಾಯುಗದ ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಕೊಡಲಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿನ ಶಿಲಾಯುಗದ ಮೊದಲ ಅರಕೆ(1842),ಇದನ್ನು ಪತ್ತೆಹಚ್ಚಿದವರು ಕ್ಯಾ.ಮೀಡೋಸ್ ಟೇಲರ್.
3. ರಾಬರ್ಟ್ ಬ್ರೂಸ್ ಪೂಟ್(1834-1912) ಅವರು ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಲವಾರು ಶಿಲಾಯುಗದ ತಾಣಗಳನ್ನು ಪತ್ತೆಹಚ್ಚುತ್ತಾರೆ, ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದದ್ದು ಸಂಗನಕಲ್ಲು ತಾಣ.
