The Salado were clever farmers who built water channels directing flow from the Salt River to their fields. They grew maize, ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three Maya cities in the Petén jungle of Guatemala. The cities are about 3 ...

Yet, taken together, pottery and beads hold a special place in human history. Researchers have long studied ancient pottery and beads to unearth buried secrets about our collective past. These items, ...

Researchers have unearthed compelling evidence of one of humanity’s oldest alcoholic beverages: rice beer. 10,000-year-old ...

Some empires, like the ancient Romans, took a "top-down" approach to spreading their aesthetic, shipping pottery across the Mediterranean so that people throughout the empire were using the ...

It’s no wonder ancient Zapotec folktales call barro negro “pottery of the night.” San Bartolo Coyotepec’s black pottery (barro negro) gets its instantly recognizable inky hue from being ...

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AMMAN — Pottery reading and collecting is essential in understanding history of Southern Levant. The analysis of ancient pottery begins with an understanding of the basic vessel part as most excavated ...