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2. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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   Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.

3. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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   For centuries, pottery has been central to pueblo life as a feature of ceremonial and utilitarian usage. The clay is locally sourced, most frequently handmade (not thrown on a potters wheel nor cast in a mold), and fired traditionally in an earthen pit. [1] [2] These items take the form of storage jars, canteens, serving bowls, seed jars, and ...

4. Mug - Wikipedia

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   For example, a rather advanced, decorated clay mug from 4000 to 5000 BCE was found in Greece. [6] Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) mugs from SW Colorado, made between 1000 and 1280 CE. The meaning of the carving in the handles is as yet unknown, but it is probably not functional. The biggest disadvantage of those clay mugs was thick walls unfit for ...

5. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian pottery includes all objects of fired clay from ancient ... Such items include beer and wine mugs and water jugs, but also bread moulds, fire pits ...

6. Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Because pottery is so durable, pottery and shards of pottery survive for millennia at archaeological sites, and are typically the most common and important type of artifact to survive. Many prehistoric cultures are named after the pottery that is the easiest way to identify their sites, and archaeologists develop the ability to recognise ...

7. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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   Clay sculpting came back to the forefront of Mexican art with an exhibition called "Terra incognita" at the Museo de Arte Moderno in 1981, although relatively little has been written about the phenomenon. Some of the best known current artists in this medium include Gerardo Azcunaga, Adriana Margain, Javier Marin and Miriam Medrez.