Earliest references of pottery are found in ____________ civilization

The oldest pottery wheels known today date back to this ancient culture. Group of answer choicesRomeMesoamericaEgyptChinaMesopotamia

Archaeological findings showthat baked bricks were used in constructionwork. It shows the mass production ofpottery, which can be regarded as the earliestchemical process, in which materials weremixed, moulded and subjected to heat byusing fire to achieve desirable qualities.Remains of glazed pottery have been found inMohenjodaro

True or false: When found in the archaeological record, pottery is equated with ethnicity.Question 17Select one:TrueFalse

In ancient India, chemistry was calledRasayan Shastra, Rastantra, Ras Kriya orRasvidya. It included metallurgy, medicine,manufacture of cosmetics, glass, dyes, etc.Systematic excavations at Mohenjodaro inSindh and Harappa in Punjab prove that thestory of development of chemistry in India isvery old. Archaeological findings show thatbaked bricks were used in construction work.It shows the mass production of pottery, whichcan be regarded as the earliest chemical process,in which materials were mixed, moulded andsubjected to heat by using fire to achievedesirable qualities. Remains of glazed potteryhave been found in Mohenjodaro. Gypsumcement has been used in the construction work.It contains lime, sand and traces of CaCO3.Harappans made faience, a sort of glass whichwas used in ornaments. They melted and forgeda variety of objects from metals, such as lead,silver, gold and copper. They improved thehardness of copper for making artefacts byusing tin and arsenic. A number of glass objectswere found in Maski in South India (1000–900BCE), and Hastinapur and Taxila in NorthIndia (1000–200 BCE). Glass and glazes werecoloured by addition of colouring agents likemetal oxides

According to the study of ancient cultures from the textbook, communities seem to have produced hand coiled and fired vessels made of clay from what country?Group of answer choicesJapanEgyptChinaIsrael