Neolithic Grooved Ware Pottery Repair: stitching a crack

It's been suggested that finds of sherds of Neolithic grooved ware pottery, with holes drilled in them, may be evidence that people of the British Stone-Age would repair cracked or broken pots. But how would that work? Here I demonstrate that rawhide and pitch, two materials readily available to these early farmers and potters, serve to make a very strong repair, allowing these ceramic vessels to continue to be used without the need to make a new pot.

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