Fine Mess Pottery

  The craft of pottery ties us to our history, in part because the material is so durable. Pieces of the objects themselves survive, giving ...

  In fashionable households in 18th century France, it was common to see serving dishes made to appear like whatever they were meant to serv...

Fingerprints point to 5,000-year-old Orkney pottery class hare IMAGE SOURCE, JAN BLATCHFORD Image caption, Analysis suggests the fingerprint...

This month archaeologists made an intriguing discovery at a dig near the Israeli city of Yavne: a site of an unusual number of kilns, and...

I have sometimes told myself a little story of how people discovered ceramics: a grass cooking basket (this actually works as long as the f...

This photo recently appeared in my Facebook feed. It's my graduate school cohort, in 1992 (I think?), at the Wagner Complex, which was...

Yup, that's a paw print alright. It appears cat have been wreaking havok for clay workers for at least a couple of millenia ! Paw pr...

Ice Age hunter-gatherers ate fish cooked in ceramic pots An Incipient Jomon pot from Kubodera-minami, Niigata Prefe...