End To reinforce this, let's look at some of the points made in the post using the example of the Eastern Slavs. In the settlements found of the Eastern Slavs, round ceramics have been identified since the 9th century, in fact, with the appearance of cities among our ancestors, and the corresponding appearance of craft.
The forms of Slavic ceramics are very stable, and without much variety, mainly pot-shaped. why? The Eastern Slavs had a highly developed production of various wooden tools; There was also plenty of trees nearby, so no complex technology was needed in ceramic vessels.
Products of Russian potters are found in the territory of Hord cities, but precisely from the category of luxury consumer goods, mass Russian ceramics are not found there during the existence of these cities.
Furthermore, the neighboring Finno-Ugric peoples, who under the influence of the Russians switched to arable farming, also adopted the shape of the vessels, since the type of agriculture changed, but the quality of the work remained behind (there is no developed urban culture), and the composition of the impurities in the dough did not change either, that is, the result was an imitation of the shape.
And already in the 19th century, the growth in prosperity of many Russian provincial cities is evident in the example of the spread of higher quality black polished ceramics, this as a result of the abolition of serfdom and other reforms of Alexander II, based on archaeological materials. It is clear that with the transition to mass industrial production during the days of the Soviet Union, pottery was very quickly replaced by factory-made ones, especially in the cities.