Fisherman’s Family Hands Over Ancient Earthenware

Archaeology ^ | Thursday, January 16, 2014 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Several pieces of earthenware recovered from the Mediterranean Sea by a fisherman have been handed over to the Israel Antiquities Authority by a relative who inherited them. (Such vessels are sometimes brought to the surface by fishing nets.) Archaeologists determined that the oldest vessel in the collection is about 3,000 years old. Other pots date to the Roman and Byzantine periods. “The only thing we’ve asked of the Antiquities Authority is to tell us where the vessels are going, so that we can visit them with the grandchildren,” said Osnat Lester, who reported the collection to the Authority.

[SunkenCiv]

(Israel Antiquities Authority)

[SunkenCiv]

This is almost the end of my catch-up posting for GGG, so soon, a break for you. :')

[skinkinthegrass]

maybe remains, of the "big one" volcanic eruption
in Homer's "Atlantis"...happened about the same time.

[ErnBatavia]

I love old stuff....but growing up in Kalifornia, the oldest man-made object I’ve ever touched would probably be a couple of the coastal Mission buildings.

[SunkenCiv]

What’s Homer’s “Atlantis”?

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Verginius Rufus]

You're probably right about California. Even with the Spanish missions, not everything dates back to the period when the missions were active--some were destroyed by earthquakes or fell into decay after secularization and had to be rebuilt, but in most cases there are probably parts of the original structures around. I once visited Mission San Antonio and found a painted potsherd on the ground, presumably decorated by one of the Indians during mission days.

Santa Clara University has Old Mission Santa Clara on its campus but I think it is a smaller replica built later. It has the grave of Peter Hardeman Burnett, the first American governor of California (who was a convert to Catholicism).

[Domangart]

I was thinking about that nut case who sues the state over religion. (He has none), Get him on the stand and ask him to give us the English name of several cities.

[skinkinthegrass]

sorry/opps!...my mistake, got my Roman/Greek historian mixed-up...Atlantis; (Ancient Greek: "island of Atlas") is a fictional island first
mentioned in Plato's dialogs Timaeus and Critias, written in c. 360 BC.

[Rebelbase]

I found this piece 30 years ago and donated it to the Archeology dept. of a local college a few years back.

Woodland period, Circa 500BC-500AD.

[Chainmail]

You haven’t looked very hard. I found a lot of Indian artifacts, including spear points, flint shaping tools and arrowheads in the California desert and Sierra Nevada mountains. A lot of petroglyphs dating back thousands of years on the 29 Palms Marine base. I even found a brass sword hilt in a cave near where LAX is today when I was 11 or so.

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[B4Ranch]

What is it made from?

[SunkenCiv]

Nice!

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe it’s fictional, maybe not.

[lee martell]

Whatever you do, DON’T DROP IT!! No replacements available of the same approximate age. There is probably a ‘Chain Of Custody List” to be signed by every single person who is given physical custody of these items. Don’t even think of going through the typical airport with these unless all is crystal clear in advance. I can see some TSA numbskull tossing these “Spittoons” into a pile for the X-ray machine.

[lee martell]

Donovan’s ‘Atlantis’ has always been my favorite. Listen to his narration as he tells the story of an ancient people, preparing for inevitable doom.

[afraidfortherepublic]

My grandmother’s ranch in Chowchilla had quite a collection of Indian mortors that my uncle and my grandfather had turned up when plowing. My cousin still has some of those. They had arrowheads too.

[Rebelbase]

“What is it made from?”

Creek bank clay. There were grain sizes in it as large as maybe 1/16th of a pea size.