nice how they’re digging, discovering so much there.
but it sure seems our ancestors spent 90% of their time making clay pots, doesn’t it? Pots, pots, pots, and more pots.....in all of these excavations....clay pots...
(I guess we can’t blame the ancestors, they didn’t have the benefits of Hollywood, internet porn, and lying political speeches to entertain them....)
Broken pottery shards must have been really common as the ancient Athenians used them (ostrakons) to vote with. they would scratch their vote on the shard and drop it in the box.
Clay pots were the microchips of their day.
Oh you gave a mild but very pleasant LOL on that one. God bless you.
Check behind your local grocery store for the number of cardboard boxes they go through, then add beverage cans and bottles to that number.
Container choices at that time would have been pretty limited, and pottery lasts a long time buried in the dirt :)
Ceramic vessels don’t bounce well.
Clay pots remain when lots of other things decay into dust; also, the contents of the pots were more important at the time, and those were consumed, then the pots reused to hold water (in an arid climate, such as this) and whatever else, or discarded.
In fact, one reason many of those ancient amphorae have pointed ends is to prevent reuse, basically, planned obsolescence. The people making the pots and selling the pots didn’t want pots making a return trip or two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio