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Burial urns: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 7; Figure 5 shows some of the largest pots recovered from the Town Creek site. These are burial urns for infants.; By Dirk Frankenberg.

From clay to pot: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 12; The remainder of this field trip is devoted to showing what humans must do to convert the clays recovered from the ground as shown in the first two photographs into the objects shown in Figures 3 through 9. We need to begin by describing what happens to native...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Mending pottery: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.9; Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Quick study: Mississippian Period: A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Mississippian Period and its key characteristics.

The village farmers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5; North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.

Four-legged ceremonial bronze urns on display in the Imperial City at Hue: Large four-legged ceremonial bronze urns are displayed in a row outside a building in the Imperial City at Hué. A thriving bronze industry developed at Hué around the royal courts that, as in China, used large and ornate bronze vessels during ceremonial...; Format: image/photograph

Arched doorways and walled entrance into Fukian Chinese assembly hall at Hoi An: Three arched doorways enter the walled compound of the Fukian Chinese assembly hall at Hoi An. The ornamented brick gateway has step-tiered, green tile roofs decorated with carved dragons. A large four-legged ceremonial bronze urn is seen in front of the central...; Format: image/photograph

Figurines and flags on gilded shrine used by Fukian Chinese at Hoi An: Figurines and miniature flags cover the surfaces of a gilded shrine used by the Fukian Chinese community at Hoi An. A crowned goddess figure is enthroned at the back center of the shrine, flanked by four smaller images of less important goddesses. A four-legged...; Format: image/photograph

Burial Urn: Human remains sit inside a decorative urn. The urn has a red circular lip, and a larger cement lip surrounding it that has several pieces of yellow rock embedded in it.; Format: image/photograph

Peoples of the Piedmont: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.4; In the years between 1000 and 1200 CE, Native life in the north and central Piedmont hadn’t changed much from prior Woodland times. People still lived in small hamlets whose houses strung out along river and stream banks. At times, the hamlets sat empty when people left to hunt and gather wild foods. But times were about to change. Around 900 CE, corn agriculture began. As a result, population began to grow, people began gathering in larger villages, and conflicts erupted.; Format: article

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The Vatican Museum: A website full of religious paintings, mosaics, tapestries, ancient carvings of gods, religious art, pottery fragments, sculptures, architecture, funeral urns, items from tombs, and The Lord's Prayer in 1,102 languages are all available, on this website of... (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: Vatican