Hand tools and equipment built to shape and fire clay, the implement set behind this atlas's Ceramics craft subcategory. Belongs here: the potter's wheel, used to shape clay by hand while it spins, and the kiln, used to fire clay hard. Does not belong here: the lathe, a comparable spinning-workpiece tool used for wood rather than clay, grouped under Woodworking Tools.
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1. Potter's Wheel (Wikipedia)
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A potter's wheel in western Ukraine, from the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, has been dated to the middle of the 5th millennium BC, and is the oldest ever found.
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