> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Kobe University > Reference:: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-captures-pottery-culturally-distinct.html > Date:: 2023 > Tags:: #warp #ceramics > WeftLinks:: [[Cultural value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft strengthens relationships between members of a cultural group]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > A study involving Muslim, Indian and French potters showed distinct differences in how they made new forms. ### Highlights Potters of different cultural backgrounds learn new types differently, producing cultural differences even in the absence of differential cultural evolution. cultural attractors." Here, culturally stable transmission may arise from [cognitive biases](https://phys.org/tags/cognitive+biases/) just as much as from the cultural backgrounds of the artisans, Hindu Indian potters (left) use high-inertia flywheels driven by sticks to shape their products, Muslim Indian potters (center) use low-inertia kick wheels, and French potters (right) use electrical wheels. by using this method, it may be possible to identify community-specific patterns for archaeological artifact assemblages of unknown authorship Tetsushi Nonaka et al, Cultural attraction in pottery practice: Group-specific shape transformations by potters from three communities, *PNAS Nexus* (2024). [DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae055](https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae055)