Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery
Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery
Our ancestors made pottery using just their hands and simple tools, you can make pottery in the same way today.
My name is Andy Ward and I have spent decades studying the ancient pottery found near my home in Arizona and trying to recreate it. Through this channel I share these techniques for making pottery, finding and using wild clay and natural pigments and firing pottery without a kiln.
Go ahead and subscribe to come along with me as I learn to make pottery like the ancients.
Lots more information including pottery workshops and online classes are on my website ancientpottery.how
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Coils? I am going to guess 25.
This is a good way to make a hard clay to soft clay👍🏿👍🏿
So when the results are in, this coming November, we can expect large areas of the USA to become depopulated?
They went away because of Democrats
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This pot is still making in india . Hear our place we still using when summer time for drinking.
Conquistadors
Hi Andy! I follow you with great love from Romania. I timidly started to make pottery using wild clay from our area. I made a cup, which is ok, then a plate. I reached the polishing phase, everything went very well, but on the plate, on the 5th day, a small crack appeared at the top, at the edge. I used clay and sand 20%. I was going to burn it tomorrow. Do you think I can do something more, or can you tell me where I went wrong?
Excellent result, and what a beautiful pot. Great video, loved seeing it start to finish, what a treat.
My 3 year old loves to watch you paint your pots, she always asks if “this is a video where Andy paints” keep it up! Paint more!
I know it sounds selfish but I feel like this channel is a little personal hidden gem. I would love to get into this, once I get a firm handle on my other hobbies first lol! I've just begun wood working and not even enough to warrant being good at it. I was also thinking it would have taken 14 coils, close but no cigar!
You are forgetting of the great European sicknesses carried over by Columbus the Conquistadores, England and France. Between 1492 until 1400 a hundred years later you better believe millions died from these new introduced diseases just from Columbus first contact.
Fantastic result Andy..been a windy road getting there..Going to look good on your shelf
andy i loved how long this video was! the attention to each step in the process, with such beautiful shots taken too. i liked to hear the sounds of the scraping and shaping of the pottery. beautiful video and i would love to see more in this style!
Very well done. Mind blowing.
Great show! You remind me of an old friend down in the Phoenix area. Lost touch with him years ago, but he still holds a special place in my heart. One thing about experimental archeology is that we never know exactly how something was done. That pine pitch, for example, looked pretty crude. Mikko Snellman, here on KZread, shows how to make "proper" pine tar, aka Stockholm Tar, and I wonder if the 'more processed' pitch would make a difference. I know that my own Stockholm Tar is certainly less piney than the pine pitch I've made from sap nodules I collected off of trees! And, maybe, one or two more cookings on the fire might burn off the Volatile Organic Compounds in the pine sap. Reminds me of when I made a horn cup and used a bit of cedar for the base. Oily slick and everything tasted like cedar! So embarrassing!! Great show, all the same, and thank you for teaching me something. I love experimental archeology, and learning about how our ancestors survived. Everything we examine today just show us how much work our ancestors did to get us where we are right now. I honor that. Whenever I'm feeling a little down, like the world is piling up around me, I remind myself that my ancestors had things far worse than I do, and they survived. If they could do it, I can do it.
How does this connect w/the peasants revolt of 1381.
If there was mass warfare, there would be numerous corpses. People don’t take their dead when they move under duress.
I first thought 14, then revised to 20. I guess I was way over!!
Thanks for playing
The Amazon was populated by millions when Spanish explorers first discovered it, also giving them small pox. When they came back a hundred years later or whenever it was all gone and the jungle had taken it back, calling the first explorers liars. Lidar tech is now finding huge cities with infrastructure consumed by the jungle.
Stargates
Not even close, I guessed 15 coils
Interesting stuff
Once is an anomaly, twice is a coincidence, thrice+ is a pattern.
1300 to 1400 the black death afflicted Europe and Asia and Africa.......it killed upwards of 70% of populations
Very beautiful pot! I had guessed 12 coils, so I guess I was close.
Very close
Thanks for the puki tip
I wonder if I can find light colored clay for slip here on the south Umpqua river area. Or around the Umpqua area valleys.
Your analysis makes no sense. If it was such a good area, that they were fighting over, they would have taken it over. Not 200 years later.
❤ Looks great 👍! Congratulations 👏. Thanks for sharing
Thanks
Interesting! For something as widespread as this depopulation, I can see two possible 'causes': 1. A major climatic change - little ice age? or 2. several factors? that proved too much together. Evidence for 1. should be "easier" to find than for 2. What do the oral tradition(s) say?
I thought 14
7 coils, maybe 8. For drying I would have just put it upside down on top of the rim with a cloth underneath so that it could contract easily, and all parts get access to air in a similar way. Same thing for the firing, but I am guessing you put it right side up to keep the designs as clean as possible.
Yes, fired right side up because it is hard to get the bottom clean. But when drying the top is rather fragile, I could have broken the rim off if I had set it upside down, at least early on.
Aztecs
Very strong work there. I knew an Andy Ward from Arizona while serving in Alaska 89-91 are you related or maybe the same Andy?
Thsnkd. I have never been to Alaska
Awesome video 👍
Thank you 👍
Around 1400 eh didn't the Spanish show up in the 1400s
Columbus didn't sail until 1492 so almost 100 years too late
She's a beauty.
Thanks
Congratulations! That is loveliness embodied.
Thanks
That cleaned up really well. I think it may be your best one yet! And I guessed less than 10 coils, but you outsmarted me by making those upper coils smaller!
Yes, thanks Dave. Those coils had to get smaller as the clay started wanting to sag, that is probably why my guess was short too.
YES!!!!
I was close! I guessed 12! I build with much smaller coils, so if it where me it would be 20 to 30, but I knew you favored bigger ones so I guessed what I thought was a ridiculously low number and I still wasn't low enough!
That's funny, I think most people over-guessed.
Hi Andy, I know this video is a couple of years old, I am resurching because my son found some clay, and brought it home.I want to use it, I will process it and make something small and try to fire! Binge watching trying to learn as much as possible, I am in South West Oregon. And am local native.Thank you for all the info.
You are welcome, I hope your pot comes out good.
I guessed 8 coils. Sort of close.
When you are scraping, how much pressure are you using? I think I'm scraping too hard. It's hard to figure out the right pressure.
Oh it's hard to say isn't it. It kind of depends on how soft the clay is, if it is very soft I will use very little pressure but if it has firmed up a lot I will really get after it.
Such beautiful work
Thank you so much 😀
i thought it'll be around 60 coils
Wow, way less. Thanks
One of your best pots ever! It looks incredible!
Thanks so much 😊
Great work,Andy, remarkable Greetings from Serbia
Glad you enjoyed it
Religion, that's what happened. F..... Duh