African pottery has always been an integral part of the continent's cultural heritage, serving both functional and artistic ...

Archaeologist Scott MacEachern remembers with fondness the days when nobody used to know where he worked. For the last 30 years he has been a regular visitor to an area of west-central Africa known as ...

An exhibition on traditional pottery is bringing to light African history before written records came into being. Pots and Identities, now showing at the Nairobi National Museum, portrays an array of ...

When climatic conditions began evolving and the survival of early men came under threat some 10,000 years ago, there was a clarion need for Africans to invent ways to safeguard their existence. The ...

In the early colonial period, Jamaican slaves manufactured pottery that incorporated traditional West African technology with selected European innovations. Recent examination of Afro-Jamaican wares ...

There’s a story to be told in colonoware, a colonial-era pottery style that fused African, Native American and European cultures in simple pots and bowls. Colonial Williamsburg archeologists hope to ...