I agree with Sarah. When I took ceramics in high school and even middle school, I never stopped to think about where the clay was coming from. All I knew is that we received the clay in the big, plastic wrapped cubes and we always had more than enough to last. I like how the author starts the paper by explaining that clay is one of the materials that can survive from the earliest of time periods. It’s amazing to think about how something so soft and pliable can turn into something so enduring. By the clay lasting it allows people today to see what life was like in the past. We can learn about daily life, burials, and even the kind of tools people in the past used.
The author explains that even though clay covers one-third of the earth it wasn’t as easy to get as it is today. Unlike students, who have all the clay they need for their projects in school, the aborigines of the Amphlett Islands had to make a semi-annual trip. They were dependent of the clay for the ceramics they made. Without that clay they wouldn’t have been able to complete their trade.
This article made me realize that ceramics is not just a hobby. Ceramics provide people with many things like money, information on the past, tools to make everyday life easier, to just name a few.
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