The pottery industry in the Maghreb during the ancient era

Abstract

Pottery is considered a literal and established heritage of the cultural identity in all the countryside of the Maghreb, through its continuity from prehistory to the present. That is because man has reached since the Neolithic period for the first time to invent pottery, which is an important material document in the field of history of technologies and lifestyles. In this topic, we aim to find out what the pottery industry is and its beginnings in the ancient Maghreb and its types, and then the most important centers of its industry and development in the region during the ancient era, and about its originality or the extent of the presence of a foreign touch in its manufacture. If the clay pots were classified into four groups, including utensils for cooking, drinking, eating and storing utensils, then this classification and the History of pottery concludes from which the countries of the Maghreb during the ancient era have produced their own ceramics since the first century AD, and it began to be exported after that to Rome during the era of the Roman occupation, and this is what made African pottery more popular since the second century AD.