the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

Ill) Period of Civilisation.Begins with phonetic alphabet and production of literary records; asequivalent - hieroglyphical writing upon stone.Ueber Pottery specially to I I Period. (/)Flint and stone implements älter als pottery, found frequently in ancientrepositories ohne pottery. Eh diese erfunden, commencement of village life,with some degree of control over subsistence, wooden vessels u. utensils,finger weaving with filaments of bark, basket making u. bow u. arrow vorappearance of pottery. Diese nicht z.B. bei d. Athapascans, the tribes ofCalifornia u. of the valley4 of Columbia. It was unknown in Polynesia (exceptthe islands of the Tongans u. Fijians), in Australia, California u. theHudson’s Bay Territory. Tylor bemerkt, dass d. “ art of weaving unknownin most of the islands away from Asia” u. “in most of the South Sea islandsthere was no knowledge of pottery.” Flint and stone implements gave the canoe,wooden vessels and ustensils, and ultimately timber and plank in house architecture.Boiling of food - vor pottery - rudely accomplished in basketscoated with clay, and in ground cavities lined with skin, the boiling being effectedwith heated stones.The village Indians - wie d. Zunians, the A^teks u. d. Cholulans (in Period II,(2) state) manufactured pottery in large quantities, and in many forms ofgreat excellence; the partially Village Indians of the U.St. in Period II (1)wie d. Iroquois, Choctas, Cherokees made it in smaller quantities u. limitednumber of formsGogueth - in last century - relates of Capt. Gonneville visiting the Southeast coast of South America in 1503, that he found “ their household ustensils2 of wood, even their boiling pots, but plastered with | a kind of clay, a goodfinger thick, which prevented the fire from burning them” u. nachGoguefi daubed d. wooden combustible vessels mit clay to protect them(from)6 fire, till they found that clay alone would answer the purpose, and “ thusthe art of pottery came into the world.”Nach Prof E . T. Cox of Indianapolis, the analyses of “ ancient pottery” 7...belonging to the mound-builders age, are composed of alluvial clay andsand, or a mixture of the former with pulverized fresh water-shells.Development in different tribes u. families.Einige so geographisch isolirt, dass sie selbstständig d. verschiednenPhasen dchlaufen; andere adultera