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Evaluating how a pot was made and used are important diagnostic steps a researcher can take before assessing how its design reflects a manufacturing tradition or cultural style.

We can study both how pots are made and how they are used today, to give us perspectives on the past:

 
Find out what it takes to make a pot from the perspective of the potter. [more]
Explore how and why pots are discarded. [more]
 

 

The Predynastic cemetery HK 43 at Hierakonpolis (Upper Egypt), which dates to 3600 BC, has the earliest recorded examples of hair extensions and hair die in the entire world.

 
Explore Lithic technology from the archaeologist's perspective. [more]
Explore Ceramics from the perspective of an archaeologist as well as a potter. [more]
Explore agriculture in the archaeological record. [more]
 
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