Pottery
Prior to the coming of Europeans, the inhabitants of both the North and South American continents (the native Indians) had a wide variety of pottery traditions. But there is no evidence to show that the potter’s wheel was used by them , before the Europeans introduced it.
All known Pre-Columbian American pottery was entirely by handmade, using a number of traditional pottery techniques. These include
- sculptural modeling
- press molding
- coiling,
- paddling.
Functional pottery objects were produced by the many cultures show that
- many of the tribes were nomadic
- they believed in afterlife
- had a pastoral society.