13th November 2014, 11:32 AM
Tool Wrote:..... would you then be able to re-learn the art to a sufficient level to produce large quantities of what was, in effect, a throw-away item,
how about a change in cookery, from eating a lot of boiled/fried food that requires some form of vessel to eating foods that are cooked directly on or in a fire?
(most) of our pot making history has merely involved chucking some clay on a bonfire
but i think your point about a change in eating habits is probably the way to advance this question - perhaps related to the return of feasting culture but can you imagine day to day peasant living in agrarian economies without pots? what did 5th century britons eat?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers