Try to imagine how life would change if we had no containers in which to store anything: no pots and pans, no bowls and dishes, no buckets and jugs, no cans and barrels, no cardboard boxes and brown paper bags, no grain silos and no oil storage tanks. Life would be reduced to what we could manage in a single day with what we could hold in our hands at one time. Pottery made it possible for communities to develop. Life was extended beyond the immediate, beyond the urgent.
