Ceramics Through Time
Every pot tells potters’ recipes: what they mixed into the clay to keep it from cracking in the kiln. Step through the eras and watch the recipe change.
Mesolithic - Early Neolithic Scandinavia
11000 BC - 3300 BC10 sites · 161 pottery samples analysedWhat potters tempered their clay with
Granite
72%
Chamotte (crushed pottery)
41.4%
Organic material
33.5%
Naturally tempered clay
18.6%
Crushed rock
5%
Sand
2.5%
Other additive
0%
Asbestos
0%
Share of analysed pottery samples where each tempering material was identified.