PROBLEMS OF POTTERY OF CHALTABERIA, NORTH 24 PARGANAS: A CASE STUDY

Abstract

From the Neolithic period of early human cultural period pottery is an important invention and industry that helped human to sustain them more easily and comfortably. Pottery helped human to gather their food securely, store drinkable water, and carry water from one place to another place and to boil food. For these reasons food storage capacity and capacity of procuring food had been increased in large amount. Invention of the pottery changed human culture and reached the human culture to civilized form. But during the time being the technology and types of art and craft of the pottery had been changed for combating the modern products like plastic materials, alloy products etc. The pottery technology is now being changed their products as old types of domestic products are not acceptable to the human culture. They are now producing crafts or show pieces or idols of deities. The demand of the market has changed their pottery culture to modern crafts.