Rie Bloch, museum inspector and PhD from Moesgård Museum, looks at the pottery of the Early Neolithic farming societies. Around 4000 BC, daily life, rituals and community changed sharply, and pottery was made on a scale never seen before, decorated with complex, abstract patterns.
The lecture asks what these patterns meant to the people who made and used them, and why so much effort went into creating them. Drawing on her own research, Bloch shows how the ceramics shed light on identity, community and social structures in the early farming period.
