Clay and pottery | Fantom expozice

The invention of pottery can be assigned to paleolithic hunters. They made so-called Venuses. The first pottery containers occurred in the Neolithic period. This pottery used to be made by two techniques: either pulling or winding. Both of them you can see in the video below. Celts invented a potter's wheel and since that period it has been used in this region.

Pottery was burned, firstly only fireplaces were used, later specialized furnaces appeared. Most of the pottery was decorated. For this, there were two reasons – aesthetical and practical. The second one means it was easier to hold dishes even if they were wet. In the gallery below, you can see several types of decorating which are typical of our region.

We can distinguish funeral ceramics and utility ones. It is interesting that funeral ceramics were richer decorated and they are founded unbroken more often then utility pottery.

Paleolitical Venus

Linear pottery culture

Corded Ware culture - cords were imprint into wet clay

Bell Beaker culture - the most typical thing for this culture is the shape of containers

Moravian Painted Ware culture

Hand-making of ceramics

Potter's wheel - this way of production was brought by Celts

Bow

People of the Bell Beaker Culture were good bowmen. Their bows were usually also the part of their graves. They used so-called bow-shaped pendants for decoration. Some of them you can see in the photo.

Source: https://bellbeakerblogger.blogspot.com/2016/08/about-bow-shaped-and-rod…