It must be amazing to hold something that old in your hands and know that a human being made it 10,000 years ago.
I once drank some 10,000 year old water melted from a piece of glacier ice. Just think that snow fell on that glacier about the time that bowl was made.
Or was it the Outback Steakhouse Bowl?
It could be as little as 5000 years old. :’) There was a sponsored ad on Facebook the other day, ancient coins; the company has a lot of non-coin items for sale, including a really nice pot, similar in style and age to some that our local museum has, and calls “Nile siltware” — about 3000 to 3500 BC. It was out of my price range, and an atmospherically controlled case would be five or six times as much as the artifact. :’)
But anyway, there’s a plate from about 7000 years ago, it’s from the time when ceramics really started to catch on, I’d look for a link but I’m dozin’ off here. :’)