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My sister made a point about pottery shards that stuck with me
Honestly, I was showing her some photos from a dig site in Turkey I worked on last summer, just the usual broken bits of old pots. She's not into archaeology at all, but she looked at one picture and said, 'It's crazy that someone's whole life is just a few pieces now.' Tbh, I'd been so focused on cataloging the types and dates that I kind of forgot to think about the people. It hit different coming from someone outside the field. Has anyone else had a moment like that, where a simple comment from a non-archaeologist changed how you look at a find?
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riley8602d ago
What about when a find makes you feel a connection? A buddy of mine was digging in Scotland and found a tiny, worn toy horse. He was all about the context layer, but his kid saw it later and just asked, "Do you think his kid was sad when he lost it?" Now my friend says he can't look at small personal items without that question in his head. It totally shifted things for him.
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clairec782d ago
That line about "someone's whole life is just a few pieces now" is really powerful. It makes me wonder, when you look at those cataloged types and dates now, do you find yourself trying to picture a specific person, like the one who might have last used that pot?
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