Victory's Museum Trip II - The Museo Egizio of Turin IV
Today I would like to continue to share with you some beautiful antiquities in the Predynastic period. They are chipped and polished stone and pottery production.
Chipped and polished stone - From prehistory to the Neolithic (5000 - 3300 BC)
About 10,000 years ago, at the end of of the last glaciation, corresponding to the long geological period of the Holocene in which we still live to this day, Egypt was inhabited by groups of hunter-gathers who were unfamiliar with agriculture or animal husbandry and moved according to the migrations of their prey. The tools used for hunting were fairly basic and consisted mainly of appears and bows and arrows, together with knives, blades and other tools for cutting meat and tanning hides. Wood was used for the shafts and handles while spearheads, arrowheads and blades were made of flint. Although different techniques of working and variations in form and size, these types of tools remained in use in all subsequent periods.
Pottery production (3900 - 3300 BC)
Pottery is the most common type of everyday object, found both in Predynastic cemeteries and settlements. Since the shapes of vases evolve through time, archaeologists use vases as guide-fossils for the dating of all the artifacts associated with them. The alluvial silts deposited by the Nile, to which the potter added straw, ash or sand to make it more malleable, was the primary raw material for the production of many types of vases. The clay vase was shaped by hand, since the potter's wheel was only introduced in the early Dynastic period. The vase was then decorated retouched, and finally baked in a kiln, which could be of the chamber type or an open-air pit. [//]:# (!steemitworldmap 45.0684296 lat 7.6843041 long ME3 d3scr)
Maybe you are intensely curious about how the craftsman made the vases in Neolithic period that there are not efficient tools can be used. I suppose below figure could help you understand how they did it. I am not the researcher of history or archaeology. Just want to share with you some beautiful antiquities. If I made some critical errors in my post, please feel free to help me correct them, thank you very much.
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Useful post !!! I have been many times in this museum hope you enjoy it!!!
Yes, I think it is the best museum in Torino:)