Ceramic Vessels From Different Cultures

Native american pottery is an art form with at least a 7500 year history in the americas.

Ceramic vessels from different cultures. Ceramics are used for utilitarian cooking vessels serving and storage vessels pipes funerary urns censers musical instruments ceremonial items masks toys sculptures and a myriad of other art forms. Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. Maya ceramics are ceramics produced in the pre columbian maya culture of mesoamerica. All three have a focus on religious and cultural themes and values unique to the country.

This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. In bhutan the variety in ceramic production includes unfired sculpture traditional unglazed pots and modern pottery. They develop criteria for value and meaning of these objects and create a timeline to situate the objects in history. Bhutan is a small landlocked country skirting the southern side of the himalayan mountain range.

There is evidence that pottery was independently invented in several regions of the world including east asia sub saharan africa the near east and the americas. Due to their resilience ceramics have been key to learning more about pre columbian indigenous cultures. Vessels for the elite could be painted with very detailed scenes while utilitarian vessels were undecorated or much simpler. Cultures especially noted for ceramics include the chinese cretan greek persian mayan japanese and korean cultures as well as the modern western cultures.

For a comparison see also. Students view ceramic vessels from different time periods and cultures and discuss their meanings functions and original contexts. Individual examples include the princeton va. They included highly polished bowls of red pottery with black dots spirals and flowing lines.

Elite pottery usually in the form of straight sided beakers called vases used for drinking chocolate was placed in burials giving a number of survivals in good condition. Students will be able to.