An Archeologist Uses Pottery Fragments to Illumine Prehistoric Social Relations

from Nature Notes · host Andrew Stuart

Broken pieces of prehistoric pottery – known to archeologists as “potsherds” – are striking artifacts. As fragments of painted vessels, they vividly evoke Native American life, in both its aesthetic and practical dimensions.

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