Who was the Berlin Painter? Greek pottery
A vase by the Berlin Painter, from ancient Athens Where did the Berlin Painter live? One of the most famous Greek red-figure vase painters is known today as the Berlin [...]
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Early European inventions
Earliest science in Europe A Neanderthal stone awl - early European inventions For a long time, northern Europe was a scientific backwater: new ideas came from other places to northern [...]
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Stone Age in northern Europe
Danube river The first modern humans, the Cro-Magnons, probably walked into Northern Europe from Central Asia around 45,000 years ago. Some followed the fish along the Mediterranean coastline to Greece, [...]
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Pottery in Ancient Egypt – Egyptian pottery
Egyptian pottery: Naqada II clay jar (Egypt, 3500 BC)Metropolitan Museum, NYC When did Egyptian pottery get started? People in Egypt started to make pottery about 4000 BC, ten thousand years [...]
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History of fishing since the Stone Age
When did people start fishing? History of fishing: Stone carving of a fish (San Francisco, ca. 7000 BC) People probably began fishing in Africa, very early on in human history. [...]
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Mesopotamian plate project – West Asia
Mesopotamian plate, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Mesopotamia is where the pottery wheel was invented West Asia was not the first place on earth where people began [...]
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Paint a Greek vase – Ancient Greece project
A red-figure vase painted by the Berlin Painter (Athens, about 480 BC) If you need an art project, or something you can do sitting down, here's a suggestion for a [...]
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Water and sewage in ancient China
Han Dynasty model of an outhouse (ca. 100 AD) People in China, like other people around the world, used human poop to fertilize their fields and grow more food. In [...]
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Stone Age China – Early Chinese History
Jade dragon-pig from New Stone Age China When did the first people come to China? Early people made it to China about 700,000 years ago. They were Homo Erectus, and [...]
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Tang Dynasty Chinese Pottery – Medieval China
T'ang Dynasty cup (Musee Guimet, Paris) Who invented porcelain? About 700 AD in China, plain white porcelain pottery first begins to appear, like these cups and these bowls. What is [...]
