These are Neolithic Corded ware pottery recovered in Southern Finland. [Credit: Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä]
Posted on 04/03/2018 1:44:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers mapped the arrival routes of pottery and people representing the Corded Ware Culture complex (c. 2900-2300 BCE) into the Nordic countries by identifying the areas where the pottery was made.
Corded Ware pottery was very different from earlier Stone Age pottery. It represented a new technology and style, and as a new innovation, used crushed ceramics -- or broken pottery -- mixed in with the clay.
Finland, Estonia and Sweden had at least five different manufacturing areas for Corded Ware pottery which engaged in active pottery trade across the Baltic Sea approximately 5000 years ago. Häme in Southern Finland had a manufacturing hub of Corded Ware pottery which can be described as quasi-industrial in Neolithic terms, and spread its products along the Finnish coast and into Estonia...
In traditional societies it is usually women who are in charge of the pottery craft and it is also common for women to relocate upon marriage. Corded Ware burials show that females were more likely to receive pottery as burial gifts, and analyses from European cemeteries show that the women were more likely to relocate during their lifetime.
It is likely that the first Corded Ware Culture artisans to arrive at the Fenno-Baltic and Swedish coasts were women who had learned their craft at their place of birth. They would have begun to use the clay available at their new home, but they mixed it with crushed pieces of pottery they had brought with them. Perhaps this was a way to preserve the older pottery which had been made in their previous homelands, thus maintaining a symbolic connection to their families and the members of their former communities in their everyday lives.
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These are Neolithic Corded ware pottery recovered in Southern Finland. [Credit: Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä]
So pottery is the second oldest profession?
Yup, and that led inexorably to the need for Daycare.
The Corded Ware? Could this be where the name Corning Ware came from?
I feel I need to point out that I’m joking.
Ironic that it’s called corded, since it is completely cordless technology!
Evidence that women broke the ceramic ceiling very early in history.
Isn't that the ultimate crack-pot theory?
So it’s an absolute proven scientific fact that women were the only ones doing this? Children (young boys) and men never ever once even thought of thought of getting into pottery.
I don’t have time to worry about such things, as global warming is causing our lake to rise. Gotta go work on sand bags.
Corning ware comes from Corning, New York.
Hi Rush,Yesterday you reported on a judge who asked a California activist how the last ice age started.
The snowflake was stuck for an answer. They lost the case.
Isn't the answer obvious?
The last inter-glacial civilization was successful in their fight against Global Warming!
Warmest regards,
nully
Corning? Where?
NY
Yeah, and women moved around more, were freer, more mobile than now. Y'know, because men didn't climb into boats or jump on horses and raid distant places for booty and, well, booty. Never ever happened. ;^)
FTA:....but they mixed it with crushed pieces of pottery they had brought with them. Perhaps this was a way to preserve the older pottery which had been made in their previous homelands, thus maintaining a symbolic connection to their families and the members of their former communities in their everyday lives.
Geez... they just make stuff up. Maybe they just recycled as it was easier.
Hairy potters were popular eons ago
Yes, they were popular -- for a spell. /rimshot
The pattern on the fragments shown appears to be formed by pressing twisted rope (cord) into the surface.
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