Early pottery in Singapore as in other regions of Southeast Asia was handmade and fired at low temperatures (below 900 degree Celcius). The vast majority of products made in fourteenth-century Singapore that still exist are earthenware ceramice. Earthnoarchaeologycal studies in many parts of the world have shown that this pottery was probably made by woman, and that the distribution of earthenware designs reveals useful insights into the communication networks and movement of women between different settlements (for examples,see Deetz 1965).