Introduction. Pottery was produced in Greece as early as the Neolithic period, but the tradition of decorated ceramic vessels in Greece developed more quickly starting in the Bronze Age, a period that ...

Introduction. Evidence for the production of pottery dates back to as early as 14,000 B.C.E. in Japan and especially during the Jōmon period, which constitutes Japan's Neolithic period (1).The ...

“Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the ...

DURING the course of some observations on the ultrasonic components of the songs and call notes of a number of species of birds1, we noticed to our surprise the extent to which the wing beats of ...

They went with a gold wire curling toward the right, a pattern seen in illustrations in Greek pottery. Image Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx, Greek Archaic period, ca. 530 B.C ...

Owls have long been a source of fascination to us. Athena, the mythical Greek Goddess of Wisdom, was smitten with owls and held them in high regard. A genus of owls, Athene, is named for her.