Title: Central America Hand-Made Indian Clay Ceramic Pottery Fragment
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: Artifact
Item ID: 5734
This is a very old ceramic Indian pottery small fragment. Ancient native pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape. These were made from their fingers, pinched and shaped by hand. this was made over a thousand years ago. most were use in sacred ceremonies. Archaeologist excavated, recovered and numbered this clay pottery fragment. We are committed to enhancing our customer’s lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We Are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers & Consultants.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragments_of_pottery
In archaeology, a sherd, or more precisely, potsherd, is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well.
Occasionally, a piece of broken pottery may be referred to as a shard. While the spelling shard is generally reserved for referring to fragments of glass vessels the term does not exclude pottery fragments. The etymology is connected with the idea of breakage, from Old English sceard, related to Old Norse skarth, "notch", and Middle High German scharte, "notch".
A sherd or potsherd that has been used by having writing painted or inscribed on it can be more precisely referred to as an ostracon.
