When I was initially assigned an artifact for survey 1, I was quite intimidated by having to find something I could make based on science in prehistory. There is very little we know about that time period due to the lack of ability to record anything before writing was fully developed.
We chose pottery as our research topic because I knew that that way I would have a concrete object I could make and could envision that being doable. I’ve made pottery on a wheel before, but I wanted to try my hand at the technique they would have used in the beginnings of pottery: coiling. Making the pot ended up being a lot harder and taking much longer than I had anticipated. but I’m happy with how it turned out.
As for the text accompanying my artifact, I had a lot of clay leftover, so I thought I could write the text in clay to keep the spread consistent. I didn’t really want to just type out the text on a white background like some of the spreads I found in the previous year’s history books.
I took both the pictures in the same place to keep the setting and lighting consistent.
Grade
I would give myself a 9/10 on this assignment. I’m really happy with how it all came together overall. I do think it would have looked even better to have a little bit of detail on the pot to go along with the decoration I put around the text, but by the time I thought of that the pot was long dry.