Complex sentence: The women did not dedicate themselves solely to cooking and the art of motherhood; many were also talented artists, and made pots, grills, and griddles from river clay by rolling the clay into rope and then layering it to form or shape.
Split into simpler sentences: The women did not dedicate themselves solely to cooking and the art of motherhood, they were also talented as artists. They made pots, grills, and griddles from river clay by rolling the clay into rope and then layering it to form or shape.