The Greeks believed that the goddess Athena ( Goddess of wisdom ) intruduced the potter's weel. :)
pottery was first invented by the ancient japanese. Not the wheel though ancient japanese people just made it and cooked they didnt spin it.
They sculpted pottery with their hands.
Although we have ceramic (Gravettian figurines) objects that date back to 30.000 BC the first (well established and proven) use of pottery as a vessel dates to the 11th century BC (10.500 BC) in Japan. The invention in Mesopotamia of the potter's wheel was the high point in ancient pottery (6.000 BC).From Mesopotamia the wheel reached India and Egypt and later on (3000 BC) Greece and the Mediterrenean sea. The invention of porcelain in China during the Eastern Han period (100 - 200 AD) was also very significant.
Wheel made pottery is handmade, too. It is just that wheel made pottery is circular and other handmade items can be other shapes. The opposite is factory-made pottery, using moulds and machinery.
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The Egyptians used the wheel and axle by transporting big stone blocks so they could build houses and pyramids.
They made pottery faster by inventing the pottery wheel.
how did the potters wheel help the mesopotamians
a kiln or perhaps a pottery wheel. But much pottery is cast in a mould, then freed and fired.
Certainly! The best and most unique pottery is created by hand.
yes.. they used the hweel for pottery and teravel and its still powerful to this day
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