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Typical Ahar pottery is a Black-and-Red ware (BRW) with linear and dotted designs painted on it in white pigment [4] and has a limited range of shapes, which include bowls, bowls-on-stands, elongated vases and globular vases. The Ahar culture also had equally distinctive brightly slipped Red Ware, a Tan ware, ceramics in Burnished Black that ...
Ida Redbird (Maricopa, 1892–1971) was a Native American potter from the Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona. She was the first president of the Maricopa Pottery Maker's Association and was widely credited with the revival of ancient Maricopa pottery techniques and forms. Her polished black-on-redware ...
The excavation yielded typical shouldered celts and cord-marked pottery. [5] The cord-marked pottery is a unique characteristic that this site shares with Sarutaru and other Northeast Indian Neolithic sites [6] that is rare in the Indian Neolithic cultures—suggesting East and Southeast Asian cultural affinities, Hoabinhian in particular. [7] [8]
Ida Redbird (1892–1971) – Master potter of the Maricopa; instrumental in the 1937–1940 Maricopa pottery revival; first president of Maricopa Pottery Makers Association; [8] translator and informant for Leslie Spier's Yuma Tribes of the Gila River, thus helping to preserve her American Indian heritage. Robert "Tree" Cody – flutist.
Pottery in the Indian subcontinent has an ancient history and is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of Indian art. Evidence of pottery has been found in the early settlements of Lahuradewa and later the Indus Valley Civilisation. Today, it is a cultural art that is still practiced extensively in the subcontinent. Until recent times ...
Class B, including the Safety Harbor and Bayshore Homes temple mounds, had high volumes of 6500 to 6900 m³, were tall (greater than 5 m), and had a summit platform 440 to 760 m² in area. The nine remaining temple mounds varied in height and shape, but were much lower in volume, 3500 m³ or less.
They built rectangular houses, with roofs made of thatch or sod and clay-plastered walls, which were located around the mounds. [11] This archeological site of a former settlement is now protected as the Lamar Mounds and Village Site. [12] Lamar pottery was distinctive, stamped with complex designs like the pottery of the earlier Woodland peoples.
Gay Head Cliffs in Martha's Vineyard consist almost entirely of clay. A Quaternary clay deposit in Estonia, laid down about 400,000 years ago. Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals [1] (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4).