In this video, we explore the ancient craft of primitive pottery, demonstrating techniques to create functional pottery using natural materials. This is part of a series on primitive technology skills ...

Early Copper EXPERIMENTS in smelting copper from ores have been carried out by H. H. Coghlan with the view of throwing light on the supposed accidental discovery of copper smelting by primitive man ...

Author and historian Patrick Garner examines the different periods and styles of ancient Greek pottery and delves into the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few ...

What to make of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, dedicated to the arts of Africa, Oceania, and ancient America? Astonishing, frightening, and baffling are three ...

On a remote station north of Broken Hill, potters from near and far gather for a weekend of primitive firing. For about 30 years, station owner and potter Cynthia Langford has opened the gates to ...

Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, quarries, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, ...

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