Examination of dynastic Egyptian pottery: archaeological and ethnographic considerations

In this article, the extent of pottery workshop production in ancient Egypt and in Sudan is examined using a comparison of ethnographic pottery studies, representations of ancient workshops, archaeological remains and the author's own attempts to replicate antique pottery. Despite numerous studies in all of Egypt, in which 10, 000 ceramic shards were each analyzed, surprisingly few pottery workshops have been discovered. Most of the settlements would have needed at least one pottery workshop to provide the population with the containers they needed to store, manufacture, cook, brew beer, etc. Is the reason for the lack of pottery workshops an archaeological distortion? Keywords:

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