When I was in South Tyrol, my archaeologist friends finished the kiln and baked the first batch of pottery, in their free time, while digging the medieval cemetery in a village not far from there. The pottery vases, ollas, bowls, jugs and cups as well as the figurines were made by Valeria, to use in demostrations and presentations to school children and the general public. Most vases belong to the Bronze Age culture of Polada. The Polada culture (14th-13th century BC) is the name for a culture of the ancient Bronze Age which spread on all of the territory of Northern Italy and characterized by settlements on pile-dwellings. The name derives from the same name locality in the territory of Lonato del Garda in Lombardy where the first findings attributed to this culture were discovered in the years between 1870 and 1875 as a result of intense activities of reclamation in a peat bog; the dating of Carbonium 14 on the finds place them between the 14th and 13th century BC (from c. 1380 to c. 1270 BC). The photos of the collage were sent to me by Simon the Elder, you can see here together with Simon the Younger and Valeria in front of the kiln open and cold. The losses were very few. Those who want to read about An experimental prehistoric pottery firing at Harray, Orkney: http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/harrison/ About Ancient Greece: http://mgu.bg/geoarchmin/naterials/20Dimitrova.pdf Thanks for your kind comments.