Seeing the World Through Pottery
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- I was going to do some worldbuilding with pottery, and then I got reading more about pottery and what we can learn from it, and now I’m excited about pottery’s place in the world, so here’s some cool stuff about pottery! At least I think it’s cool.
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More than any of my actual archaeology courses, this video makes me want to pick up some clay and get a potters wheel. Its crazy how in worldbuilding its super easy to glaze over (pun intended) simple aspects of cultures like pottery, and yet those simple things can reveal so much about a society and what they value.
Thank you!! My favourite part of worldbuilding is taking something I normally take for granted and finding out it's not that simple. I'm happy I can share that feeling :D
My stepfather is a potter so it’s very interesting to learn more about the history of ceramics! I’ll be sure to show him this video!
ooooo pots, never thought about this for my world building projects
I’m watching this in my ceramics class :)
By the way, that hill in Rome made from broken pottery still exists. Is called "Monte dei cocci" and it's in what's now the neighboorhood of Testaccio.
This made us think a LOT more about the daily life aspect of our worlds!
Thank you!
You know a channel is good when you drop everything to watch their new video
My dad was an archeologist in Israel. He brought me back a lot of ancient Israeli, Roman, Greek pottery..... some of my most prized possessions.
I need a waterbottle with eyes on the bottom now actually
your videos fill me with such joy, they've really been opening my eyes to the world in a way i havent thought about before
Beautiful Video and very eye opening. Thank you for taking the time to make this for us all.
...this is honestly the first time someone's managed to make me interested by talking about pots
1:56 that hill is not too far form my home, and over the years many people excaveted little rooms inside of if it wich are usually used to store wine because all the pottery keeps the ambient cooler than the outside
I'm quite new to the channel, but I must say I've been loving how your already good videos are consistently getting better and better. The quality of this one feels amazing to me, at least. Keep up the good work!
This is like an anthropology channel disguised as worldbuilding. Which, now that I think about it, is pretty much what that is.
You've spotted my trick!
Thank you for expanding my horizons
I think this is probably your best video. Good job.
You rock girl! Keep doing your thing!
This channel is blossoming into something great!
aahh this is super cool and im sure itll be helpful to my own work! one of my fictional cultures puts a lot of value on different kinds of pottery (figurines, beads, tableware, etc) and many of the things youve brought up in this video will be great food for thought. thanks!!
Tbh pottery and other crafts are suuuch good places to start when worldbuilding, or good places to get inspiration! I have a really old worldbuilding project I was feeling stuck on, but when I took a pottery class I suddenly got so many new ideas for material culture in the project, it was so cool!!
THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD. It reminded me of why I love domestic history so much; it's through these small, mundane details that you can understand life, and see the broad strokes of humanity. You and an ancient Greek woman might be connected by your love of funny-looking cups; you and a long-dead monk might be connected by really liking that one chipped bowl with the odd crackle in the glaze for its simplicity. You and a hunter-gatherer older than history might be connected by the way you both like to make little statues with a fingerprint left on the bottom. We are all connected through the most mundane things, and that gives those things a very special sort of magic, I think. It's why I love history; I love humanity, and I love all the funny little things we've always done. And this was such an amazing video; thank you for teaching me so much cool stuff about pottery, and reminding me of the value of domestic history! ( ◜‿◝ )♡
Thank you so much! This comment captures so much of what I love about history and archaeology too :D
What kind of designs would be on Elush(ian?) pottery? Also, I thought nothing factual could top the video on children's drawings but I apparently stand corrected. Great video!
Thank you! I'm honestly not that decided on how Elush pottery works, and that's part of why I got into researching. I think the vast majority of their pottery will be made and used only within the household, so it will not be decorated much, because there's nobody to show off to. People make their own pottery with designs they personally like. But there are also workshops that create standardized pottery for use in transporting goods. And super fancy and elaborate pottery might be used as a status symbol when serving guests, or to donate to temples. There might also be prohibitions against bringing unfired pottery outside of a house, and people might treat it a bit like a baby, with firing as metaphorical coming of age... But none of that is set in stone yet, and if I figure out something interesting for them, that might go into another video :D
here for my ceramics class gang 💃🕺💃🕺
omg what is your class using this video? If so that is SO COOL!!
I thought the tittle said "Seeing the world through poverty"
That's hysterical.