- � long time ago, about thirty thousand years, one primitive human being had
a big problem, he needed to transport water from a stream to his cave.
First he made a basket but during the journey the water was dripping and
by the time he got to his cave the basket was empty. He thought that
he needed to cover the holes so looking at his feet he thought about the earth,
and he got a handful of mud, and cover the basket holes �.. |
legend |
introduction |
Vessels in Mesoamerica were one of the most antiques ways of art expression. In their design we can appreciate the amazing handcraft abilities, human being creativity, and the immense necessity of making containers for food and water. The pottery vessels were born after the need of cooking. There are many different kinds of techniques in production and decoration like for example: ones are grave, polychrome, in relieve, and seals stamped. The prehispanic also made ceremonial visages to create different kinds of scents in their rituals, they used to keep the human ashes of their deads. Vessels made of anthropomorphist and zoomorphism images were their way to magnify and their will to paralyze the evil spirits. The pottery vessels have been the clue to determine the chronological age of different kinds of civilizations. The importance of vessels is not only that they covered the human needs but also were very important in the spiritual way of living, thinking and feeling of the prehispanic world. During Mexican ancient the creation of vessels where only women worked, they were the vessel producers in towns. As women were in charge of feeding the family, they made the vessels as food containers in different decorative kinds of shapes, sizes and types. |
history notes |
�The word "Ceramic" comes from the Greek "Keramos" that means "Clay" which
are Pottery's handcrafts. �Ceramic is older than writing, The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians engraved their vessels before paper was invented because cooking, food, and beverages were a priority for the primitive human being. �During the ancient Mexico, clay was used to mold images of animals and people. But first of all to make ceremonial objects and idols. �The vessels were very important for the dead because the villagers left food next to them for their long time journey. |
