Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to a sizable audience. Dave (later ...

Gini Keating usually has an idea of what she intends to create when she starts a pottery project, but lets the process guide her. “The clay starts as a cylinder and I can make it wide into a bowl or ...