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The Origins and Use of the Potter's Wheel in Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
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The Origins and Use of the Potter's Wheel in Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
Series: Archaeopress Egyptology
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The invention of the wheel is often highlighted as one of
humankinds' most significant inventions. Wheels do not exist in
nature, and so can be viewed entirely as a human-inspired
invention. Machinery too, was relatively rare in the ancient world.
The potter's wheel is arguably the most significant machine
introduced into Egypt, second only perhaps to the drill, the loom
and the bellows for smelting metal. In Predynastic Egypt (c3500
B.C.), the traditional methods of hand-building pottery vessels
were already successful in producing pottery vessels of high
quality on a large scale for the domestic market, so it would seem
that the potter's wheel was a rather superfluous invention.
However, the impact of this innovation would not just have affected
the Egyptian potters themselves learning a new skill, but also
signalled the beginnings of a more complex and technologically
advanced society. Despite many years work on the technology of
pottery production it is perhaps surprising that the origins of the
potter's wheel in Egypt have yet to be determined. This present
project seeks to rectify this situation by determining when the
potter's wheel was introduced into Egypt, establishing in what
contexts wheel thrown pottery occurs, and considering the reasons
why the Egyptians introduced the wheel when a well-established hand
making pottery industry already existed.
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