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38-646: The site is located on the Gomal River Plain, which is part of the Indus river watershed. It is close to where the Zhob River flows into the Gomal River. Since the earliest occupation, except for the extension outside the city in the south, the entire habitation area was enclosed by a massive wall, built from dressed blocks made from clay slabs. The low rectangular mound is covering about 22 hectares and standing 4.5 m above

76-433: A pot. Only a small range of vessels were fashioned on the tournette, suggesting that it was used by a limited number of potters. The introduction of the slow wheel increased the efficiency of hand-powered pottery production. In the mid to late 3rd millennium BC the fast wheel was developed, which operated on the flywheel principle. It utilised energy stored in the rotating mass of the heavy stone wheel itself to speed

114-404: A similar technique, jolleying, refers to the production of hollow ware , such as cups. Prior to using a wheel all of these civilizations used techniques such as pinching, coiling, paddling, and shaping to create ceramic forms. In addition, several of these techniques continued to be used on pots on or off the wheel to decorate or create more rounded or symmetrical shapes. Most early ceramic ware

152-517: A very similar beginning as Japan. The history of Chinese pottery began in the Neolithic era about 4300 BC down to 2000 BC. Unlike Japan, which focused on production of everyday wares, China created mostly decorative pieces with few opportunities for industrialization and production of ceramic wares. Because China focused on decorative wares, most of their pottery was centered around porcelain instead of earthen wares seem almost everywhere else, and they used

190-423: A vessel and adding coils of clay then throwing again, pots may be made even taller, with the heat of a blowlamp being used to firm each thrown section before adding the next coil. Similarly, multiple sections may be thrown and combined to create large vessels. Large wheels and masses of clay can also allow for multiple people to work on a pot simultaneously, which can create very large ceramic pieces. This practice

228-547: A wheel into their work. Pottery can be identified in the Southwest of North American dating back to 150 CE and has been an important part of Native American culture for over 2,000 years. Historically Native Americans have been using the coiling method to achieve their decorative and functional pieces, and the technology to create an electric wheel did not show up until the arrival of Europeans. However, smaller turntables or slow wheels could have been used occasionally. The use of

266-641: A wider variety of shapes, including stemmed vessels, so wheel-thrown pottery can be distinguished from handmade. Potters could now produce many more pots per hour, a first step towards industrialization . Many modern scholars suggest that the first potter's wheel was first developed by the ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia . A stone potter's wheel found at the Sumerian city of Ur in modern-day Iraq has been dated to about 3129 BC, but fragments of wheel-thrown pottery of an even earlier date have been recovered in

304-884: Is Kunal (4000 BCE) in Haryana which is older than Rehman Dheri (3300 BCE). The type site , the first excavated site of this type of culture is Kot Diji. Rehman Dheri, which was considered oldest example of this culture, is now the second oldest example of this culture after Kunal was excavated and found to be older than Rehman Dher with similar older cultural artifacts then the Rehman Dheri. Kot Diji and Amri are close to each other in Sindh, they earlier developed indigenous culture which had common elements, later they came in contact with Harappan culture and fully developed into Harappan culture. Earliest examples of artifacts belonging to this culture were found at Rehman Dheri, however, later excavations found

342-685: Is a 400-kilometre-long (250 mi) river in Afghanistan and Pakistan . It rises in northern Afghanistan's Paktika Province and joins the Indus River 20 miles south of Dera Ismail Khan , in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan and Gomal District in Afghanistan's Paktika province are named after the river. The name Gomal is thought to have derived from

380-762: Is about 100 miles from the Zhob River to the Indus River . The river enters the Gomal Valley in Tank District at a place known as Girdavi, which is inhabited by the Miani Pashtuns . It is mainly here that the water of Gomal is used to cultivate the lands in the Gomal Valley through Zam System ( Rod Kohi ). The river passes then through the Damaan plain in Kulachi Tehsil and later on through Dera Ismail Khan Tehsil . It joins

418-431: Is an important component to create arts and craft products. The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as extensions of the potter's wheel: in jiggering, a shaped tool is slowly brought down onto the plastic clay body that has been placed on top of the rotating plaster mould . The jigger tool shapes one face, the mould the other. The term is specific to the shaping of flat ware , such as plates, whilst

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456-401: Is considered as "being the place of origin of the potter's wheel. It was here that the turntable shaft was lengthened about 3000 BC and a flywheel added. The flywheel was kicked and later was moved by pulling the edge with the left hand while forming the clay with the right. This led to the counterclockwise motion for the potter's wheel which is almost universal." Thus, the exact origin of

494-402: Is rectangular is shape with a grid-like street network. The walls demarcating individual buildings and avenue frontages are still clearly visible, and it’s easy to recognize some small-scale industrial areas; within the site, eroded kilns and scatters of slag have been found. At Kunal in Haryana, a button seal was discovered during 1998-99 excavations by Archaeological Survey of India . The seal

532-415: Is similar to the Rehman Dheri examples. It contained a picture of two deer on one side, and geometrical pattern on other side. The similar specimen at Kunal is datable to c.  4000 BCE , and it is older than Rehman-Dheri, which makes Kunal site an older cultural ancestor of Rehman Dheri. In Rehman Dehri the archeological sequence is over 4.5 meters deep and it covers a series of over 1,400 years that

570-476: Is used in Jingdezhen, China, where 3 or more potters may work on one pot at the same time. There are a variety of methods to throwing, though almost all involve the following steps in some form: center the clay on the wheel, open a hole in the clay, creating a donut shaped ring of clay around the base of the pot, then raise or shape the walls to create the pots final shape. The specifics of these steps, including

608-406: The motor -driven wheel has become common in modern times, particularly with craft potters and educational institutions, although human-powered ones are still in use and are preferred by some studio potters . Social consequences that can arrive of these technological advancements include increased economic advancements in the sales of pottery created using the potter’s wheel and industrialization of

646-479: The "Gomal Road". 31°36′53″N 70°50′46″E  /  31.61472°N 70.84611°E  / 31.61472; 70.84611 Potter%27s wheel In pottery , a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming excess clay from leather-hard dried ware that is stiff but malleable, and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour. Use of

684-406: The "Second Gomal", joins the main channel about 14 miles below its source. The Gomal flows southeast through the eastern Ghilji country before entering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Within Pakistan, the Gomal River forms the boundary between South Waziristan and Balochistan . Approximately 110 miles from its source, it merges with the Zhob River , its major tributary, near Khajuri Kach. It

722-639: The Indus River 20 miles south of the city of Dera Ismail Khan . The damming of this river at Khajuri Kachh was envisaged as back as 1898, even after its administrative approval by the Government of Pakistan in 1963. Work on the Gomal Zam Dam was stopped in 1965; not to restart till 2001 during the rule of Pervez Musharraf . while it was opened and inaugurated in 2013. There is also a street in E-7, Islamabad called

760-481: The ceramics processes. The potter’s wheel greatly increased the production rate of ceramics, which allowed for more products to be created. With the industrialization of ceramics in Japan, ceramics also lost some of its historical value, and some techniques and meanings of the ceramics were lost in the process. A skilled potter can quickly throw a vessel from up to 15 kg (30 lb) of clay. Alternatively, by throwing

798-458: The clay of the base of the pot. This arrangement allowed the potter to rotate the vessel during construction, rather than walk around it to add coils of clay. The oldest forms of the potter's wheel (called tourneys or slow wheels ) were probably developed as an extension to this procedure. Tournettes, in use around 3500 BC in the Near East , were turned slowly by hand or by foot while coiling

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836-585: The development of the writing system of the mature Indus Civilization. The animals and the symbols depicted on the earliest seal found at Rehman Dheri remind us of the animals and symbols as were portrayed later during the Mature Indus Civilization. Also, it was during the Tochi-Gomal phase that the progress from handmade to wheel thrown pottery had occurred. Gomal River The Gomal ( Urdu : دریائے گومل , Pashto : ګومل سیند، ګومل دریاب )

874-447: The foot from side to side against the spinning hub is rather awkward. At some point , an alternative solution was invented that involved a crankshaft with a lever that converted up-and-down motion into rotary motion. In Japan the potter's wheel first showed by in the Asuka or Sueki period (552–710 CE) where wares were more sophisticated and complicated. In addition to the new technology of

912-443: The motions of the hands, can vary from culture to culture, as well as from potter to potter. In most cultures, the wheel spins counterclockwise and the right hand is placed on the outside of the pot as it is thrown. Japanese pottery is thrown oppositely, with the wheel spinning clockwise and the right hand on the interior of the pot. However, modern wheels powered by electric motors often allow for rotation in either direction, allowing

950-539: The oldest example of this culture at Kunal. These are cultural ancestor to site at Harappa . These sites have pre-Harappan indigenous cultural levels, distinct from the culture of Harappa, these are at Banawali (level I), Kot Diji (level 3A), Amri (level II). Rehman Dheri also has a pre Kot Diji phase (RHD1 3300-2800 BCE) which are not part of IVC culture. Kot Diji has two later phases that continue into and alongside Mature Harappan Phase (RHDII and RHDII 2500-2100 BCE). Fortified towns found here are dated as follows. The mound

988-582: The potter's wheel became widespread throughout the Old World but was unknown in the Pre-Columbian New World , where pottery was handmade by methods that included coiling and beating. A potter's wheel may occasionally be referred to as a "potter's lathe ". However, that term is better used for another kind of machine that is used for a different shaping process, turning , similar to that used for shaping of metal and wooden articles. The pottery wheel

1026-562: The potter's wheel for the development of porcelain clay culture. Porcelain took off during the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), when the iconic blue and white porcelain ceramics emerged. Several places in China mix traditional elements and methods with modern design and technologies. Native Americans have been creating ceramics by hand and in more modern eras started incorporating

1064-449: The process. This wheel was wound up and charged with energy by kicking, or pushing it around with a stick, providing angular momentum . The fast wheel enabled a new process of pottery-making to develop, called throwing , in which a lump of clay was placed centrally on the wheel and then squeezed, lifted and shaped as the wheel turned. The process tends to leave rings on the inside of the pot and can be used to create thinner-walled pieces and

1102-563: The recent developments, the plans of the Early Harappan settlement were disturbed. This site represents the earliest urban settlement on the sub-continent, with a very rich bead industry. It was earlier than the Kot Diji - Sothi complex. Recent research has revealed a Tochi-Gomal Cultural Phase in the Gomal Plain of Northwest Pakistan. Rehman Dheri was a part of that cultural sequence. This

1140-661: The river Gomati , which is mentioned in the Rigveda . Gomal River's headwaters are located in the northern part of Paktika Province , southeast of the city of Ghazni . The springs which form the headwaters of the Gomal's main branch emerge above the fort at Babakarkol in Katawaz , a district in Paktika inhabited by Ghilji Pashtuns from the Kharoti and Sulaimankhel clans. The Gomal's other branch,

1178-524: The same area. However, southeastern Europe and China have also been claimed as possible places of origin. 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, and which further precedes the earliest use of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia by several hundred years. On the other hand, Egypt

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1216-486: The surrounding field. Near Rehman Dheri, there's an unexcavated Harappan site of Hisham Dheri. This indicates that, in some regions, Kot Dijian (such as Rehman Dheri) and Harappan communities coexisted side by side. Also, the site of Gumla, Pakistan is located nearby. Gomal river is mentioned in Ramayan as river Gomti and Raam Dheri (renamed to Rehman Dheri) is the site of Ayodhya originally. The earliest site of this culture

1254-413: The uncovered area was too limited to study the spatial sharing of craft activities. So the occupation of Rehman Dheri may have been more ancient than is presently attested. In the middle of the third millennium BC, at the beginning of the mature Indus phase, the site was abandoned. There was limited reoccupation. Some more records are found at the neighbouring archaeological mound Hisham Dheri . Due to

1292-498: The wheel is not wholly clear yet. In the Iron Age , the potter's wheel in common use had a turning platform about one metre (3 feet) over the floor, connected by a long axle to a heavy flywheel at ground level. This arrangement allowed the potter to keep the turning wheel rotating by kicking the flywheel with the foot, leaving both hands free for manipulating the vessel under construction. However, from an ergonomic standpoint, sweeping

1330-509: The wheel, firing was also changed to a much higher temperature in a rudimentary kiln. The industrialization continued through the Nara period (710–794) and into the Heian, or Fujiwara, period (794–1185). With higher temperature firings, new glazes followed (green, yellowish brown, and white), in addition new styles and techniques of glazing emerged. Ceramic wares that emerged from China were processed with

1368-403: Was begun at c. 3,300 BC. Reham Dehri characterizes different periods which includes the period from c. 3300-2850 BC, c. 2850-2500 BC, and the last is from c. 2500-1900 BC. In its earliest phases it is accepted that the settlement receives its formal planning and that consequent stages extended the plan over time. Even though the excavators have cut a number of deep trenches into the lower levels,

1406-495: Was hand-built using a simple coiling technique in which clay was rolled into long threads that were then pinched and smoothed together to form the body of a vessel. In the coiling method of construction, all the energy required to form the main part of a piece is supplied indirectly by the hands of the potter. Early ceramics built by coiling were often placed on mats or large leaves to allow them to be worked more conveniently. The evidence of this lies in mat or leaf impressions left in

1444-505: Was the culture that flourished in the Bannu Basin and Dera Ismail Khan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the end of Neolithic Age. The Tochi-Gomal Phase followed the local Neolithic phase, as represented in this area at Jhandi Babar. After Tochi-Gomal, the Kot Diji culture followed, and it was also represented at Rehman Dheri, as well as at nearby Gumla. The inscribed seals and sherds of Tochi-Gomal phase may have contributed significantly to

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