5 ottob 1000 anni a. C. - Terra-Cotta fragment

Descrizione:

Date: 1000 BCE

Artist: unkown

Medium: terra cotta

Location:
original: Lapita, Solomon Islands, Reef Islands
current: University of Aukland, New Zealand

Function:
- fragments are from a pot that would have been used for culinary purposes
- possibly food storage or even actual cooking
- could have been a form of reverence for ancestors, ritualistic/religious use

Form:
- made from molded terra cotta, a reddish-brown, unglazed type of clay
- made on volcanic islands, interesting materials available
- they used a method called dentate stamping, involving carving designs into existing natural materials and using this as a stamp on the terra cotta clay before it was dried
- terra cotta uses fire to harden which showed their developed civilisation at that time

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