Recent archaeological discoveries in El Salvador are challenging long-held assumptions about pre-Columbian societies in ...

A boy arranges freshly made clay drinking pots to dry at a workshop in Gaza City in 2008. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Review by Maggie Lange Acquiring knowledge is one of the great pleasures of ...

TONDABAYASHI, Osaka Prefecture--In a rare find, researchers unearthed various “haniwa” (clay figures) in the shapes ... “Since there are several human-shaped haniwa, I imagine the haniwa ...

The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek houses designated exclusively for men. Researchers also ...

The unfinished clay figure of a woman, dating from between the 10th and 9th centuries BC, looks more like a first draft than a ready-made piece of art. But just because the clay worker didn’t ...

When the children were called away, perhaps to eat a meal, they left the completed figurines ... that these were communities of people doing human activities and interacting with one another ...

"Bridget came to us with this idea to have all sorts of people from across the community come together to make a small clay figure that represented themselves. "We tried to recruit people to the ...

Not far from the shop, within a courtyard styled after ancient architecture, is the workshop of Zhang Yu, the sixth-generation inheritor of Clay Figure Zhang, a household name of folk art in China ...

Gradually, a "Lucky Star" clay figure took shape in Zhang's hands, its face beaming with kindness and joy, while its flowing robes added a sense of movement. "The Lucky Star held a big gold ingot ...