A handmade pottery object used for cooking. This type of element shows that society was starting to become sedentary.
Pottery appeared as a technological innovation in the Neolithic period. The utensils were made to cook, store, and transport food and also store surpluses. The semi-spherical shape of the vessel, its wide opening and numerous holes lead us to believe that it may have been used to strain liquids, and may have even been used to make cheese, in which the milk curd was poured in order to eliminate the whey.
It was made in a community that had domesticated animals and that had knowledge of agriculture. This would determine an increasingly sedentary life for the people, who settled down in one territory and changed their working and social organisation so that it was different from the characteristics of the societies of hunters and gatherers. It comes from Cueva de la Pileta (Benaoján, Malaga).
CategoryCeramicsDateNeolithic period, 5th-4th millennia BC
Original title Quesera de la Cueva de la Pileta Malaga Museum Málaga Malaga, Andalusia