Handmade Pottery

This is our primer on handmade pottery history referenced above.  Facts and fragments we've put together from many sources.  It's meant to just give you a teaser of the lengthy and fast history of one of the oldest crafts known to man and one that is still heavily practiced.  Depending on what source we researched we think the first pottery wheel was created sometime between 3000 and 4000 BC.  However, handcrafted pottery first appeared thousands of years before with the first examples dating back to 25,000 BC!  The earlier forms of handmade pottery where typically forms of art and not what we would consider practical pottery.  It's generally accepted that first pottery vessels were created for drinking water sometime around 10,000 BC.  Pretty big invention given the other options of the time. :)  Lapping at the creek, the good old drink from the leave trick and if you were a real lucky neanderthal maybe you lived near a small waterfall.  OK so we digressed a bit.  Back to more history...