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

Hand Building LARGE Pots - 4 Ways

Hand Building LARGE Pots - 4 Ways

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  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth2 минут бұрын

    Coils? I am going to guess 25.

  • @user-cp8dy6gd6i
    @user-cp8dy6gd6i25 минут бұрын

    This is a good way to make a hard clay to soft clay👍🏿👍🏿

  • @diannegooding8733
    @diannegooding8733Сағат бұрын

    So when the results are in, this coming November, we can expect large areas of the USA to become depopulated?

  • @haroldbell213
    @haroldbell213Сағат бұрын

    They went away because of Democrats

  • @ForbiddenHistoryLIVE
    @ForbiddenHistoryLIVEСағат бұрын

    THANK YOU Peace & Enlyghtenment Alwayz A Micah Hill Dezert-Owl Search Name

  • @nd7908
    @nd7908Сағат бұрын

    This pot is still making in india . Hear our place we still using when summer time for drinking.

  • @Skyhors3
    @Skyhors33 сағат бұрын

    Conquistadors

  • @vasigioni
    @vasigioni3 сағат бұрын

    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?

  • @marleneruddell9395
    @marleneruddell93954 сағат бұрын

    Excellent result, and what a beautiful pot. Great video, loved seeing it start to finish, what a treat.

  • @nathanbrendle4409
    @nathanbrendle44094 сағат бұрын

    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!

  • @orellinvvardengra6775
    @orellinvvardengra67756 сағат бұрын

    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!

  • @about2mount
    @about2mount8 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @stephenwalford774
    @stephenwalford7749 сағат бұрын

    Fantastic result Andy..been a windy road getting there..Going to look good on your shelf

  • @valsalas666
    @valsalas6669 сағат бұрын

    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!

  • @scottmcdonald5237
    @scottmcdonald523710 сағат бұрын

    Very well done. Mind blowing.

  • @threeriversforge1997
    @threeriversforge199711 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @danam.8709
    @danam.870911 сағат бұрын

    How does this connect w/the peasants revolt of 1381.

  • @Edward-tz7xz
    @Edward-tz7xz12 сағат бұрын

    If there was mass warfare, there would be numerous corpses. People don’t take their dead when they move under duress.

  • @sallyboyd1212
    @sallyboyd121213 сағат бұрын

    I first thought 14, then revised to 20. I guess I was way over!!

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery12 сағат бұрын

    Thanks for playing

  • @dustinmetz8283
    @dustinmetz828313 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @user-yo5mj2hc6d
    @user-yo5mj2hc6d13 сағат бұрын

    Stargates

  • @Mackelsey
    @Mackelsey14 сағат бұрын

    Not even close, I guessed 15 coils

  • @asavarus
    @asavarus14 сағат бұрын

    Interesting stuff

  • @stischer47
    @stischer4714 сағат бұрын

    Once is an anomaly, twice is a coincidence, thrice+ is a pattern.

  • @user-uu2bd5fc2o
    @user-uu2bd5fc2o15 сағат бұрын

    1300 to 1400 the black death afflicted Europe and Asia and Africa.......it killed upwards of 70% of populations

  • @christophermauchline2586
    @christophermauchline258615 сағат бұрын

    Very beautiful pot! I had guessed 12 coils, so I guess I was close.

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery12 сағат бұрын

    Very close

  • @tinaashworth8282
    @tinaashworth828215 сағат бұрын

    Thanks for the puki tip

  • @tinaashworth8282
    @tinaashworth828216 сағат бұрын

    I wonder if I can find light colored clay for slip here on the south Umpqua river area. Or around the Umpqua area valleys.

  • @leighharrison9705
    @leighharrison970516 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @cindydawson3815
    @cindydawson381517 сағат бұрын

    ❤ Looks great 👍! Congratulations 👏. Thanks for sharing

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery12 сағат бұрын

    Thanks

  • @davidberesford7009
    @davidberesford700917 сағат бұрын

    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?

  • @jbrown1713
    @jbrown171318 сағат бұрын

    I thought 14

  • @petrapetrakoliou8979
    @petrapetrakoliou897918 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery12 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @Cohowarren
    @Cohowarren18 сағат бұрын

    Aztecs

  • @tallakff7349
    @tallakff734918 сағат бұрын

    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?

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery18 сағат бұрын

    Thsnkd. I have never been to Alaska

  • @randy-eb5kr
    @randy-eb5kr18 сағат бұрын

    Awesome video 👍

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery18 сағат бұрын

    Thank you 👍

  • @dougbosworth8745
    @dougbosworth874518 сағат бұрын

    Around 1400 eh didn't the Spanish show up in the 1400s

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery18 сағат бұрын

    Columbus didn't sail until 1492 so almost 100 years too late

  • @sheilam4964
    @sheilam496419 сағат бұрын

    She's a beauty.

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery18 сағат бұрын

    Thanks

  • @jeanettewaverly2590
    @jeanettewaverly259019 сағат бұрын

    Congratulations! That is loveliness embodied.

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery18 сағат бұрын

    Thanks

  • @llanitedave
    @llanitedave19 сағат бұрын

    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!

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery18 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @claraallen12
    @claraallen1219 сағат бұрын

    YES!!!!

  • @MirrimBlackfox
    @MirrimBlackfox20 сағат бұрын

    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!

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    That's funny, I think most people over-guessed.

  • @tinaashworth8282
    @tinaashworth828220 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    You are welcome, I hope your pot comes out good.

  • @AlanDayley
    @AlanDayley20 сағат бұрын

    I guessed 8 coils. Sort of close.

  • @calebwarnock9131
    @calebwarnock913120 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @margaretsmith8066
    @margaretsmith806620 сағат бұрын

    Such beautiful work

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    Thank you so much 😀

  • @J9_j3
    @J9_j320 сағат бұрын

    i thought it'll be around 60 coils

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    Wow, way less. Thanks

  • @AncientAmericas
    @AncientAmericas20 сағат бұрын

    One of your best pots ever! It looks incredible!

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    Thanks so much 😊

  • @user-kh7ik6ur7i
    @user-kh7ik6ur7i20 сағат бұрын

    Great work,Andy, remarkable Greetings from Serbia

  • @AncientPottery
    @AncientPottery19 сағат бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it

  • @harmonicamanrandy
    @harmonicamanrandy20 сағат бұрын

    Religion, that's what happened. F..... Duh