TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allan,Jennifer Lucy
TI  - Clay: a human history 
SN  - 9781399607643 (hbk.) :
AV  - QE471.3 
U1  - 553.61 ALL 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - White Rabbit
KW  - Clay
KW  - History
KW  - Popular Science
KW  - eflch
KW  - Popular Science and Nature
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - thema
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Earth sciences
KW  - Pottery, ceramics & glass crafts
N2  - People have been taking handfuls of earth and forming them into their own image since human history began. Human forms are found everywhere there was a ceramic tradition, and there is a ceramic tradition everywhere there was human activity. The clay these figures are made from was formed in deep geological time. It is the material that God, cast as the potter, uses to form Adam in Genesis. Tomb paintings in Egypt show the god Khum at a potter's wheel, throwing a human. Humans first recorded our own history on clay tablets, the shape of the characters influenced by the clay itself. The first love poem was inscribed in a clay tablet, from a Sumerian bride to her king more than 4000 years ago, and this book is a love letter to clay, the material that is at the beginning, middle and end of all of our lives
ER  -