Earthen Cookware – Return to Healthy Tradition

Pottery is one of the oldest human inventions. The clay has been used as a material for making pots date back to the pre-historic period. Pottery vessels were discovered in Jiangxi, China, date back to BC 18,000. The growth of human civilization in many early human settlement areas accelerated the development of family and social culture. Changing the social organization from nomadic to sedentary lifestyle was also happened simultaneously. The earliest forms of pottery were made from clays that were fired in pit-fires or in open bonfires. Egyptians and Greeks were the forerunners of the pottery techniques as the Egyptians started using kilns and Greeks made many experiments to make the pots more sturdy and durable. As a result of these changes in the human needs and lifestyle requirements, earthenware pottery was produced on a mass scale by a

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