2. Neolithic Era
The Birth of Art
• Neos (New) Lithos (Stone) =
New Stone Age
• 10,200 BC to 4,500 BC
• Farming
• Animal Husbandry
• paintings
Storytelling with cave
• Decorative clay pottery
3. Why is Farming
Important?
• Allows for a stable food source
• Staying in the same place
• Time to relax and communicate
• Feeling more secure and happy
16. Step 3
Pinching evenly with your fingers and with
your thumb in the hole, press and rotate to
widen the hole.
17. Step 4
When your pinch pot has strong, even
walls, smooth the surface and the lip with a
drop or two of water.
18. Step 5
You can add three small balls of clay to the
foot to create a tripod base. Score and slip
each surface to make them stick together!
Score: making the surface of
your clay rough with criss-cross
scratches
Slip: brushing water or watery
clay over the scored areas to
help pieces of clay stick
together.
19. Step 6
Press in textures to decorate your pot.
You can use anything with
an interesting surface as a
clay stamp:
rope, jewelry, tiles, seashells,
fingernails, rubber stamps,
baskets, fabric