Their presence in specific locations, their decoration, their chemistry: pottery of our ancestors are witnesses of their unique arts of life. In many ways, ceramics is the raw material of archaeologists, said Marie-Yvane Daire.
“After taking a little land, to give it a shape, Neolithic Men have discovered that it only lasted not without cooking.” Loaded CNRS research in the team “Civilisations Atlantic and archeosciences” at the University of Rennes 1, Marie-Yvane Daire recalls that the ceramic accompanies us from 7 000 years. “It appears when the man was sedentarise.
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Archive for July, 2008The ceramic card of our ancestorsSaturday, July 26th, 2008Ferns: know-how crystallized Stories of glass and ceramics in BrittanySaturday, July 26th, 2008
On the other side of glass and ceramicsSaturday, July 26th, 2008
The ceramic is at the centre of technological changeSaturday, July 26th, 2008
Ultra-sharp ceramic knives in two colorsSaturday, July 26th, 2008In helping to bring Indian cooking to American homes, chef Suvir Saran has created a line of tools with Wade Ceramics. Product demonstrations include mortar & pestles and ultra-sharp ceramic knives in two colors. Interview at the 2008 International Home & Housewares Show by Ann Volkwein for Cooking.com. |
Historian specialist in heritage preservation scientific and industrial breton, Jerome Cucarull us here a few reflections on the work of glass and ceramics, and addresses a recent news: the closure of the crystal of Ferns.
A bock beer, a glass. The ceramics and glass, everyone knows! Not so sure. This file Sciences West is an opportunity to rediscover two materials like no other. Near chemically, they accompany many technological developments for millennia and are now everywhere in our daily lives, from simple lighter until the heart of the computer (p.10). In Brittany, where ceramics is a special index for archaeologists (p. 12), social memory remains strong around the work of glass (p 11) and know-how while still evolving especially in the windows (p 13) .
She accompanied the progress of Humanities and inundates our technological world … but the ceramic remains unknown. A gap in our scientific culture, in the eyes of Jean-Marie Haussonne, the regional delegate for research and technology.