What does the study of pottery tell historians?
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Correct answer: Lifestyle and cultural phase
Pottery can reveal cooking and eating habits, craft technology, trade contacts, artistic preferences and the relative cultural phase of a settlement. Shapes, fabric, firing, decoration and distribution all provide clues. Pottery cannot by itself tell only the weather, modern elections or sea storms; historians combine it with other archaeological evidence.
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Lifestyle and cultural phase
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Pottery can reveal cooking and eating habits, craft technology, trade contacts, artistic preferences and the relative cultural phase of a settlement. Shapes, fabric, firing, decoration and distribution all provide clues. Pottery cannot by itself tell only the weather, modern elections or sea storms; historians combine it with other archaeological evidence.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: Pastoral Nomads and their Movements.
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