On Sunday we were out in Recapture Creek looking for Anasazi potsherds. EDO found a nicely painted one (above). After a while, I took a walk up the creek for two or three miles and started climbing around on some small sandstone walls. When I dropped down to start back, I noticed a nearly intact corrugated pot under a rock (below). It may have been sitting there for 800 to 1,000 years. (Still is sitting there, in fact, because obviously I didn't touch it.)
Amazing find. Reminds us of the seed jar from the "Things" Radiolab episode we listened to earlier this year: http://www.radiolab.org/story/things/
ReplyDeleteWe hiked up to some ruins in central AZ last weekend with the kids, but only crumbled walls were left...
I think artifacts like this were common 100 years ago, but they are probably relatively rare now, at least outside a museum. And, BTY, the term is "ancestral Puebloan jar." The title of my post is both technically and socially incorrect. You probably know this, Kass, but for the best ruins, it's the Four Corners. Check out my next post.
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