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the exhibition tried to focus on the people behind the pots as well.
this concludes the symposium, that was quite exhausting, probably would have deserved a whole day rather than an afternoon.
the exhibition is until the 27th, i hope i'll have time to go…

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there are only two short periods in okinawa when the bottoms are flat. the reasons are difficult to imagine.
ah, gushiken likes to find fingerprints on pottery and fit his own fingers in. i like that too 😁
the development of ai based tools for analyses may permit to find news things we never thought about.
the period without pottery in the yaeyama will probably be the focus of more research in the future.

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in yaeyama, the Shimotabaru pottery, despite its shape of cooking pot, is very thick and maybe not fit for cooking. there is no proof that they have been used for cooking yet (analyses, carbonised remains…)
finds of carbonised remains stuck to pottery are rare in okinawa, even for more recent periods.
the evolution pointy → flat → pointy bottom might be due to a change in the location of the settlements (sandy places or not)

#tsuboyapottery pottery is not produced anymore in the okinawa-amami areas after the introduction of stoneware, but in the sakishima, production goes on until the 19th c.
questions time.
some of the oldest potteries does not seem to have been used to cook, jar types are numerous. there is a variety of sizes and shapes that suggest a variety of uses.

#tsuboyapottery the potteries older than nanto-tsumegatamon have just been named (this year i think, we've got eleventy symposia), that's really recent discoveries (several types from Tokunoshima presented today had not been reported yet in the previous conf i went to. this summer).
the names have been settled for the tsuboya exhibition. they present most of the types from 10000 ybp to nowadays.

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the origins of the pottery in ryukyu : there are some similarities with foreign types, but nothing clear enough to be able to say 「the pottery of the ryukyu came from here」
kyushu was a good candidate but recent studies of techniques seem to link the oldest types to the mainland (china, not mainland japan), the low sea level at the time makes this relation really plausible.

#tsuboyapottery we'll now enter the discussion.
we'll start with those new types that are older than the nanto-tsumegatamon.
amami and okinawa have quite similar discoveries, but there are slight differences.
and since we are late, everybody is talking very fast with no consideration for the people who try to live-toot…
some of the pottery types older than the nanto-tsumegatamon have a very nice finishing, nicer than some of the more recent types.

#tsuboyapottery there are also bowls and cooking pots, and imitation of okinawan funerary jars (zushi).
this concludes the third talk.

#tsuboyapottery in the 12th century, there is the Shinzatomura pottery that lasts to the 13th c. it's large cooking pots. Birosuku pottery is also dated 12-13th c. and is also large cooking pots. Nakamori pottery lasts from the 13th to the 17th c and is large cooking pots too with vertical or horizontal handles. Nakamori also have jars, of different shapes, with or without handles.
the panari-yaki pottery 17-19th c. has mainly jars, globular, with potters' marks on them.