10 sentences with 'clay'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clay and other words derived from it.
• « To do so, they mix clay with sand, shape it in the ground and fire it at around 700 degrees Celsius. »
• « Objects found in Iran by the archaeologist Wilhelm Koning resemble modern piles. The main elements are a clay vessel, a copper pipe and the iron rod with traces of lead lining. »
• « Suffice it to say about the importance of this discovery that these cities are as old, or perhaps older, than those of Mesopotamia, with which there was an obvious link, as evidenced by the cuneiform signs on the clay slabs. »
• « As is well known, the working of clay - widely available in nature - which can be modelled by hand and then fired, was as simple as it was revolutionary. But when was this material invented? »
• « A logical and organic reconstruction achieved by science holds that the invention of clay took place in the Near East at the beginning of the Neolithic Age, around 6000 BC. »
• « According to some researchers, the invention of clay working would not have been isolated, but part of a more general 'revolution' in human change: along with improved techniques for working stone, there would have been a shift from nomadic to sedentary life, from an economy based on hunting and gathering, to cultivating the land and raising livestock. »
• « In Palestine - a country as famous as it is sacred - two thousand eight hundred years ago, an unknown artist took a handful of fresh clay and moulded the image of a man with a rucksack over his shoulder, giving life to the oldest image of a traveller in living memory. »