Archaeologists digging in the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe have discovered pieces of jade-green Chinese pottery, ...

Unearthed at Great Zimbabwe, a shard of jade-green Longquan celadon pottery from China illuminates extensive trade networks ...

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 ...

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 ...

By analysing fatty acids extracted from unglazed pottery excavated from an archaeological site in Libya, the researchers showed that dairy fats were processed in the vessels. This first identification ...

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from ...

A fresco of painted cattle in the Libyan Sahara. Numerous rich and vivid rock art images depicting scenes of cattle are found widely across north Africa, dating from at least 7,000 years ago. Roberto ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A person involved in making pottery, with two other people present. Printed caption on recto reads: "African Pottery, Shaping Pots." Item number ...