objects made from clay that are shaped and hardened by heat, like bowls, vases, and plates.
From pot + -ery suffix (place or practice). Pot comes from Old English pott, from Latin pottus. The craft is ancient, dating back 20,000+ years.
Pottery is literally how archaeologists read history—ancient clay reveals what people ate, where they traveled, and what they believed because unglazed pottery holds chemical signatures of ancient life.
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