Dan Mercer Who Uses Instrument Learned Trade From Uncle In Greensborough, Pa. A “potter wheel” used in San Francisco to make pottery-ware for the ’49 gold rush is in Dan E. Mercer’s workshop at the ...

Archeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology they helped pioneer will change the way scientists study the broken pieces left behind by ancient societies. The team from ...

Inside a dusty and dark workshop on the banks of the Jaghjagh river in northeast Syria, Misak Antranik Petros uses an ancient pottery wheel to throw different shapes from clay.

A machine learns to categorize pottery comparable to expert archaeologists, matches designs among thousands of broken pieces. Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology ...