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Guy at a Tucson fossil show told me pottery shards are worthless, and I still think he's wrong
I was at the gem and mineral show in Tucson back in February and this dealer kept brushing off a box of Hohokam shards I'd brought to show around. He told me "if it ain't gold or a point, nobody cares," but those sherds had a painted rim pattern that told you more about daily life than any arrowhead ever could. Does anyone else feel like the artifact world sleeps on plain old broken pottery?
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viola_garcia564d ago
Those plain sherds are the real story, they show what people ate, how they cooked, what they traded. A painted rim can date a whole site, an arrowhead just tells you somebody shot a deer once.
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