Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

A painted terracotta centaur was found in the " Hero's tomb " at Lefkandi, and by the Geometric period, centaurs figure among the first representational figures painted on Greek pottery.

Living in the area near The Valdivias, they were the first Americans to use pottery.

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

Perhaps the first Bantu speakers to arrive in present day Zimbabwe were the makers of early Iron Age pottery belonging to the Silver Leaves or Matola tradition, third to fifth centuries A. D., found in southeast Zimbabwe.

Over the course of the next decade, his experimentation ( and a considerable injection of capital from his marriage to a richly-endowed distant cousin ) transformed the sleepy artisan works into the first true pottery factory.

He attributes to her directly the first of the key events ( after the advances made by William F. Albright at Tell Beit Mirsim in the 1920s ) that brought about our modern understanding of pottery in the southern Levant:

The first of these was Josiah Wedgwood, who became a close friend of Darwin in 1765 while campaigning for the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal and subsequently closely modelled his large new pottery factory at Etruria on Boulton's Soho Manufactory.

At first, Egyptians used the bright green malachite stones for ornamentations and pottery.

According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.

This was recognised at least as early as the nineteenth century, and the first legislation in the United Kingdom to limit pottery workers ’ exposure was introduced in 1899.

It was one of the first industrial cities of the modern era where, as early as 1785, two hundred pottery manufacturers employed 20, 000 workers.

The transition to the Neolithic era in Central Europe featured the development of agriculture and the clearing of pastures, the first smelting of metals at the local level, the " Retz " style pottery and also fluted pottery.

Campfires are about 200 ° C short of the temperature needed for that, so it has been conjectured that the first smelting of copper may have been achieved in pottery kilns.

Depictions of two-tiered ships ( biremes ), with or without the parexeiresia ( the outriggers, see below ), are common in 8th century BC vases and pottery fragments, and it is at the end of that century that the first references to three-tiered ships are found.

Thomsen was the first to perceive typologies of grave goods, grave types, methods of burial, pottery and decorative motifs, and to assign these types to layers found in excavation.

Excavations were also made below the royal tombs layer: a-thick layer of alluvial clay covered the remains of earlier habitation, including pottery from the Ubaid period, the first stage of settlement in southern Mesopotamia.

The Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons: creatures attempting to drink blood from men were depicted on excavated pottery shards.

* c. 3000 BC — First pottery in Colombia at Puerto Hormiga ( Magdalena ), considered one of the first attempts of pottery of the New World.

During the Neolithic era, the territory of modern-day Austria was home to the Linear pottery culture, one of the first agrarian cultures in Europe.

In the agricultural communities of the Middle East, the cow was domesticated and use of pottery became common, spreading to Europe and South Asia, and the first metal ( gold and copper ) ornaments were made.

In places like Kerala, where coconuts are in abundance, the half shell of coconut is used as the collection container for the latex but glazed pottery or aluminium or plastic cups are more common elsewhere.

At Medinet Habu the corselet appears similar to that worn by the Philistines and is similar, though not identical, to that found in tomb 12 at Dendra where Mycenaean IIB-IIIA pottery dates it to the second half of the fifteenth century BCE.

Huntingford further notes that Roman pottery was found at Arikamedu in 1937, and archeological excavations between 1944 and 1949 showed that it was " a trading station to which goods of Roman manufacture were imported during the first half of the 1st century AD ".

Since the last half of the 20th century, however, almost all of the bottle-shaped kilns have been taken down, due to regulations from the Clean Air Act — an estimated 4, 000 bottle kilns in the heyday of the pottery industry, today reduced to a mere 46.

An assemblage of Late Neolithic pottery fragments found at Carlogie, half a mile to the north of Carnoustie, has been interpreted as evidence of a settlement of that age in the area.

which was suituated on Nutgrove Avenue, half way between the Good Shepherd church and Rathfarnam village and Whitehall, of T. Laffan, Esq., an out-office of which is built in the shape of a pottery furnace, with a winding flight of steps on the outside to the top, whence there is a commanding prospect of the surrounding country repeats our description of the Bottle Tower.

With railway distribution of pottery products in the second half of the 19th century, there was a considerable increase in business.

: 1 ) A layer of thickness averaging 20 cm, consisting of humus-rich earth with many plant remains and roots ; tracks from ploughing were clearly identifiable as were a broad spectrum of readily datable finds from the second half of the 20th century. 2 ) A layer of thickness averaging 25 cm, similar in composition to the first layer, however containing less humus and a larger amount of small stones ; a large variety of finds which could be dated to the 19th and 20th century were found, of which an official seal from 1848 deserves particular mention. 3 ) A layer of thickness between 25 and 150 cm, composed out of small volcanic rocks, most likely put in place in one movement, which levelled the uneven stone underneath ; the stones contained only very few finds, mostly a small number of pottery shards, of which some was local and some imported, both kinds were roughly estimated as belonging to the 19th century ; however, the ground directly beneath the pyramids themselves have yet to be excavated.

Excellent, stone-free clay pits ( now mainly worked out ) exist in the eastern half of the parish and were also owned by Brannam's pottery and usedfor their ' Barumware '.

From the second half of the 1st century AD the city flourished considerably as a result of its agricultural propensities and the development of industrial activities such as the production of everyday pottery and brickwork objects and linen textiles.

Proto-Elamite pottery dating back to the last half of the 5th millennium BC has been found in Sialk, where Proto-Elamite writing, the first form of writing in Iran, has been found on tablets of this date.

Excavations undertaken in 1959-1960 revealed remains of stone structures on the eastern half of the island, associated with pottery which suggested that the moated site was occupied during the 12th and 13th centuries and possibly until the 15th century.

On the site of the present Spanish Fortress stood a hillfort, the importance of which can be seen in the pottery from the site, indicating long distance trade from the eighth century B. C.

The dominant pottery of the century was Geometric ; ;

The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

Greeks from Euboea left their pottery at Amathus from the tenth century BC.

They found the baptistry of the 6th century cathedral and large amounts of pottery dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD ; in other words, the early Christian town.

This historical founding was traditionally dated to 654 BC, which is unverified, although evidence in 7th century BC Greek pottery tends to support it.

In the early times only the art of pottery and terracotta developed, but from the seventh century onwards, a large number of temples and images were also built on account of the intensified religious passions and the accumulation of wealth in cities.

Post-Roman imported pottery has been excavated from many sites across the region, and the apparent surge in late 5th century Mediterranean and / or Byzantine imports is yet to be explained satisfactorily.

The subject was favoured by painters of Red-figure pottery as early as the sixth century BC, and remained popular in Greek and Roman art, before enjoying a significant revival, as an opportunity to show three female nudes, in the Renaissance.

Glazed pottery produced in this area's kilns, dated from around the 14th-15th century AD

While there is not much evidence of communities in Luxembourg at the beginning of the Bronze Age, a number of sites dating back to the period between the 13th and the 8th century BC provide evidence of dwellings and reveal artifacts such as pottery, knives and jewelry.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

During excavations in 1954-7 at Hole Ground, just outside the entrance to the cave, the foundations of a 1st century hut and Iron Age pottery were seen.

Tin-glazed pottery made at Delft and other Dutch towns adopted genuine blue-and-white Ming decoration from the early 17th century.

Rhodes pottery from that century has been found in Marseille, near Martigues and Istres, and at Mont Garou and Evenos near Toulon.

Still, by the end of the century, many artisinal industries began to flourish ; making perfumes in Grasse ; olive oil in Aix and the Alpilles ; textiles in Orange, Avignon and Tarascon ; and faience pottery in Marseille, Apt, Aubagne, and Moustiers-Sainte-Marie.

The development of celadon pottery flourished in the 12th and 13th century.

The museum exhibits include tapestries from the sixteenth century given by Robert de Lenoncourt ( who died in 1532 ), marble capitals from the fourth century AD, furniture, jewellery, pottery, weapons and glasswork from the 6th to 8th century, medieval sculpture, the façade of the 13th-century Musicians ' House, remnants from an earlier abbey building, and also exhibits of Gallo-Roman arts and crafts and a room of pottery, jewellery, and weapons from Gallic civilization, as well as an exhibit of items from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic periods.