primitive survival evolution

Chapter 38 Reliable pottery making method (recommendation ticket and collection urgently needed)

Li Yan dug out several round-bottom pots from the pile of pottery. These pots were relatively thick, reddish-brown in color, very round, with a rough surface and a thin layer of enamel on top.

This kind of pottery is produced by the Taka tribe itself, but the quality is not good, it is easy to break, and it is easy to seep water.

Li Yan took these pottery to the cave entrance to find Mu.

At this time, Mu and Bai Wu were drying herbs at the entrance of the cave, some roots and leaves.

Primitives, like animals, would turn to plants for treatment when they were sick, but the knowledge of plants was in the hands of the tribe's Mu and Baiwu, which is why they have a high status in the tribe.

They were drying all kinds of herbs. These primitive herbs have not evolved and are completely different from modern species. Li Yan can't determine what kind of herbs they are.

"Mm!" Li Yan put a few pottery on the ground and said, "These pottery are made by our tribe, the two new girls can make pottery, I want them to be responsible for making pottery in the future, how about making pottery?" Where did the clay for these pottery come from?"

"Let them make pottery? Do you want to learn how to make pottery?" Mu looked a little excited.

"That's right, there are too few pottery in our tribe." Li Yan nodded, "Those two people used to make pottery in the Wenjia clan."

"Do they know how to make pottery?" Mu was pleasantly surprised. "Our Taka tribe makes pottery, and only one of them can be used if we burn ten pottery. It would be great if two of them who know pottery came to help."

Bai Wulian next to him stood up and said, "Yan, I'll take you to find pottery clay."

"Yeah." Li Yan nodded.

Mu said again: "White Witch, you go, I'm drying these herbs."

"Yes, M."

Firing pottery is a major event for the tribe. Many tribes are unwilling to disclose their pottery firing techniques to other tribes. If Li Yan and the others can really burn more pottery, it will be of great help to the Taka tribe, so , both Mu and Bai Wu are very supportive of Li Yan.

Bai Wu ran back to the cave and brought out several rattan baskets.

She distributed the rattan baskets to Li Yan and the two women.

Then everyone went to the stone tool house to get spears and stone picks.

Although the place where the soil is collected is in the valley, people always carry spears for self-defense every time they go out of the tribe, especially to a farther place.

Everyone walks out of the tribe with a spear, rattan basket and stone pick.

After descending the mountain, everyone entered the woods behind the mountain.

Many of the trees in this forest have been broken, and some are dead trees that have been cut down and thrown aside. The tribesmen will regularly come to this forest to cut down trees, so that they will have dry firewood to take away when they come next time.

Go some way.

The white witch who was leading the way in front pointed to an obviously dug place by the stream, turned around and said, "Earth, here it is."

Li Yan and the two women quickly approached.

The place was full of weeds, so Li Yan cleared some of the weeds with a stone hoe, and dug a hole. The stone hoe was really hard to use, and it was heavy and laborious to use.

The soil in the pit is a bit sticky, with a relatively uniform texture and a grayish white color.

"Is this soil?" Li Yan asked again.

"Yes, that's all." Bai Wu nodded.

The two women also said that this soil is suitable for firing pottery.

So, the four of them began to collect the pottery clay, and they filled four large baskets in total.

When returning to the tribe, Mu and several old women gathered around and said they wanted to help.

They can also make pottery, but the success rate of tribal pottery firing is low and the quality is not good.

There is no water source in the tribe, only a few tanks of water for cooking and drinking, and water for grinding stone tools in the stone tool house.

There was a stream near the tribe, so the people took the clay and went to the stream.

They also brought some ceramic plates.

Bai Wu and the two women rubbed the clay evenly and put it back into the basket.

Li Yan, Bai Wu, two new women, Mu and several other old women.

There is a pottery plate in front of everyone, and a basket of clay is placed beside it. The pottery plate is an important tool for catching clay and making pottery.

So started making pottery.

Li Yan remembers that people who made pottery in the previous life turned pottery, and people directly supported it with their hands to shape it, but now they can only shape it by hand.

The rest started to make pottery, but Li Yan watched them make pottery quietly.

I saw that they twisted the pottery into strips first, and then shaped them. This is very inefficient, and it is not as fast as the one that turns, so it is impossible to mass produce.

So, he recalled the history of human pottery development in the past.

In the end, he slapped his head and finally remembered a revolutionary tool in the history of pottery development. As long as this tool appeared, it would undoubtedly make the tribe's pottery industry far ahead of other tribes.

Just doing it, he made the tool out of the dirt he had.

One is a pottery disc with a hole in the middle, and the other is a convex shape of clay.

"Yan, what did you use for this? Pottery with holes, what can it hold?" Bai Wu couldn't help but wonder when he saw Li Yan's work, thinking that the child was playing.

"Yeah, Yan, what can this be used for?" Mu also wondered.

Li Yan said with a smile: "Use it to make pottery, you will know it after you make it."

The women present couldn't help but look at each other, such broken pottery can still make pottery?
After everyone finished making the pottery, the White Witch brought some black mud. She said that it was muddy water made from a kind of stone. The pottery should be brushed with this mud so that it will not leak easily when it is fired. Li Yan understood, this is Is the original glazing technique.

After processing, everyone moved the pottery back to the tribe.

Because the freshly made pottery is wet, it must be completely dried in the shade before it can be fired, so we put these pottery in a thatched cottage to dry in the shade.

Li Yan found that the tribe didn't seem to have a place to burn pottery, so he asked them, "How do you burn these pottery after it dries?"

"Outside the tribe, put the pottery on the ground and burn it together with firewood and hay." Bai Wu replied.

Now, Li Yan finally understood why the pottery they fired was of poor quality and the success rate was low. Although the temperature required for firing pottery was not high, but the temperature was not high enough and stable enough, the pottery they fired would easily break and the quality was poor. It is the campfire pottery method commonly used by primitive Homo sapiens, no wonder it is so difficult for them to make pottery.

There is a very simple way to keep the temperature stable enough for firing pottery, such as digging a hole in the ground, and then putting the pottery into it and burning it with firewood, so the Chinese character "kiln" comes from this way.

So, taking advantage of the time when the pottery was drying in the shade, Li Yan recruited a few tribe men to dig kilns in some soft soil outside the tribe.

It took three days to dig a hole with a depth of 1.5 meters and a diameter of more than one meter. It was very laborious to dig the soil with stone tools, and more than a dozen stone tools were dug out. It is estimated that Wen Ge and the others will need to work for a month to make it. return.

In three days, the pottery just finished drying in the shade.

So, Li Yan and everyone carefully put the pottery into the kiln, and then put firewood and hay inside.

"Light it up!" Li Yan shouted.

　Urgently looking for a recommendation ticket.

　　


(End of this chapter)