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7000 BCE Neolithic Period Bob, a Neolithic salary man

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7000 BCE. Neolithic Period. Bob, a Neolithic salary man. 5000 BCE. People are no longer nomadic, giving them more time and space to invent and construct. Bob’s great-and-then-some grandson. Egyptian hieroglyphs Describing the life of a potter, Around 2000 BCE. Loading the Kiln. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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7000 BCENeolithic Period

Bob, a Neolithic salary man

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5000 BCE• People are no longer nomadic, giving them more

time and space to invent and construct

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Bob’s great-and-then-some grandson

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Loading the Kiln

Unloading the Kiln

Egyptian hieroglyphsDescribing the life of a potter, Around 2000 BCE

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4000 BCE•Coil pots are more smooth and can be crafted into a wider variety of shapes than pinch pots

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3000~2500 BCE•Wheel invented around 3000 BCE

•History’s greatest simple tool•Initial potter’s wheel essentially a small turn table used to make coil pots more quickly•Made a more fluid and continuous motion

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Flat wheel on top of a rounded bottom that allowed it to turn

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2000 BCE• Progress made with

wheel inventions• Use of axels to connect

wheels

Bob’s legacy continues

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The Kick Wheel•Heavy stone below is kicked•The axel carries the rotation up to the smaller wheel•More demanding than electric wheel, also more quiet

•Clay is truly thrown for the first time, opens a whole new world to pottery

•Trial and error lead us to the methods we know today

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Robert Comptonwww.robertcomptonpottery.com

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Creativity and ingenuity never stops!