how did the ancient peruvian people make pottery?

Answer 1

As they did not have the wheel, the pottery was made by rolling clay and then coiling it, or, more often, by sort of pinching the clay together into a pot. The formed but not fired pot was left for a day or longer. Then it was fired by stacking the pots around a pile and then covering the pile and the fire with mats; this kept the fire's temperature higher.

Clay of different colors was sometimes traded around, and areas with little indigenous clay would either trade for it or send people out seasonally to retrieve it from better sources (riverbeds.)

Decoration was done by either pressing decoration into the semi-dry pottery, dipping the dry pots into a 'slip' of very liquid clay and then firing, or by painting after firing.