African pottery is an ancient art form that spans thousands of years and the entire continent. It entails the molding and ...

"What the pottery does is it creates a place for microorganisms to live," Steeves said. Indigenous people in the Amazon invented the soil, which is also known as 'Amazonian dark earth.' ...

Jones, who has studied Indigenous pottery since the 1970s, used traditional methods to hand-build and pit-fire the replica. “Our traditional pottery died out around the 1500s,” Jones explained.

It's been a longstanding belief that Indigenous Australians did not make pottery. However, recent archaeological discoveries on an island off the Cape York Peninsula have the potential to up-end ...