We're gonna need a whole lot of potsherds
November 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
We're gonna need a whole lot of potsherds
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench · How to keep count: Power to the Plebs
Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It’s a tiny detail, but potsherds last a long time underfoot before despawning in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake. It just makes destroying pots that much more tactile.
#OoTR
#OoTR
November 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
It’s a tiny detail, but potsherds last a long time underfoot before despawning in the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake. It just makes destroying pots that much more tactile.
#OoTR
#OoTR
Needle in a haystack ❌
Potsherd in a cornfield ✔️
"Field survey in Ludhiana (Punjab) India, during a 40-degree summer afternoon! We went to a location completely surrounded by cornfields. The site was destroyed because of farming, but we still managed to find some potsherds between the crops."
Potsherd in a cornfield ✔️
"Field survey in Ludhiana (Punjab) India, during a 40-degree summer afternoon! We went to a location completely surrounded by cornfields. The site was destroyed because of farming, but we still managed to find some potsherds between the crops."
November 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Needle in a haystack ❌
Potsherd in a cornfield ✔️
"Field survey in Ludhiana (Punjab) India, during a 40-degree summer afternoon! We went to a location completely surrounded by cornfields. The site was destroyed because of farming, but we still managed to find some potsherds between the crops."
Potsherd in a cornfield ✔️
"Field survey in Ludhiana (Punjab) India, during a 40-degree summer afternoon! We went to a location completely surrounded by cornfields. The site was destroyed because of farming, but we still managed to find some potsherds between the crops."
Flinty & Corky. Early Neolithic pottery sherds c.3700-3500BC #Fenland #Archaeology
October 28, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Flinty & Corky. Early Neolithic pottery sherds c.3700-3500BC #Fenland #Archaeology
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench · How to keep count: Power to the Plebs
Ordinary people in the Roman Empire are often only glimpsed; where they are foregrounded, they tend to be treated with...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Took a hike to these isolated petroglyphs in Valley of Fire. Followed the dune up & over and found an alcove. There I found 3 potsherds and what I believe may have been some chert. The glyphs were low so I got a good look at them. Didn't touch them. I wish I knew what they were trying to say.
October 27, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Took a hike to these isolated petroglyphs in Valley of Fire. Followed the dune up & over and found an alcove. There I found 3 potsherds and what I believe may have been some chert. The glyphs were low so I got a good look at them. Didn't touch them. I wish I knew what they were trying to say.
it's this series' version of potsherds
October 24, 2026 at 8:54 PM
it's this series' version of potsherds
I excavated cacao vessel fragments in Aztec domestic contexts. The labs that do that work were not interested. A Maya vase with hieroglyphs from an elite tomb? Sure. But Aztec potsherds from commoner houses? Nah. But I have a strong analogical argument for the sherds. Class bias in archaeology.
October 26, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I excavated cacao vessel fragments in Aztec domestic contexts. The labs that do that work were not interested. A Maya vase with hieroglyphs from an elite tomb? Sure. But Aztec potsherds from commoner houses? Nah. But I have a strong analogical argument for the sherds. Class bias in archaeology.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Archaeologists: it belongs to a preliterate period but you could ponder some hypotheses based on a couple of potsherds and what it seems to be carbon from a hearth.
Archaeologists: it belongs to a preliterate period but you could ponder some hypotheses based on a couple of potsherds and what it seems to be carbon from a hearth.
October 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Archaeologists: it belongs to a preliterate period but you could ponder some hypotheses based on a couple of potsherds and what it seems to be carbon from a hearth.
Archaeologists: it belongs to a preliterate period but you could ponder some hypotheses based on a couple of potsherds and what it seems to be carbon from a hearth.
FFXIV Minion of the Day
Wind-up Sasquatch
"It thankfully cannot pelt you with its steaming stool."
Source:
E-Una-Kotor, Quarrymill (South Shroud) (3 Gelmorran Potsherds (Palace of the Dead))
#xivminotd #ffxiv #gpose
Wind-up Sasquatch
"It thankfully cannot pelt you with its steaming stool."
Source:
E-Una-Kotor, Quarrymill (South Shroud) (3 Gelmorran Potsherds (Palace of the Dead))
#xivminotd #ffxiv #gpose
October 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
FFXIV Minion of the Day
Wind-up Sasquatch
"It thankfully cannot pelt you with its steaming stool."
Source:
E-Una-Kotor, Quarrymill (South Shroud) (3 Gelmorran Potsherds (Palace of the Dead))
#xivminotd #ffxiv #gpose
Wind-up Sasquatch
"It thankfully cannot pelt you with its steaming stool."
Source:
E-Una-Kotor, Quarrymill (South Shroud) (3 Gelmorran Potsherds (Palace of the Dead))
#xivminotd #ffxiv #gpose
Sunday-morning history from Virtue & Power:
Athenian ostracism ballots were potsherds with a name scratched on. One well deposit held a large batch naming a single man, written in only a few hands. Ballots prepared in advance.
https://www.virtueandpower.com/institutions/ostracism
Athenian ostracism ballots were potsherds with a name scratched on. One well deposit held a large batch naming a single man, written in only a few hands. Ballots prepared in advance.
https://www.virtueandpower.com/institutions/ostracism
October 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Sunday-morning history from Virtue & Power:
Athenian ostracism ballots were potsherds with a name scratched on. One well deposit held a large batch naming a single man, written in only a few hands. Ballots prepared in advance.
https://www.virtueandpower.com/institutions/ostracism
Athenian ostracism ballots were potsherds with a name scratched on. One well deposit held a large batch naming a single man, written in only a few hands. Ballots prepared in advance.
https://www.virtueandpower.com/institutions/ostracism
Cool rocks and potsherds. My kind of person.
October 10, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Cool rocks and potsherds. My kind of person.
(see also: the exaggerated overuse of ochre and potsherds)
October 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
(see also: the exaggerated overuse of ochre and potsherds)
(Granted you need to farm potsherds outside of PotD - however all the fundamentals of deep dungeon are learnt in PotD so it’s the best starting point.)
October 7, 2026 at 4:45 AM
(Granted you need to farm potsherds outside of PotD - however all the fundamentals of deep dungeon are learnt in PotD so it’s the best starting point.)
The glee at PotD being the last milestone for this was great. More people should do deep dungeon. It’s very fun! Also you are INUNDATED with QoL for it these days (case in point: drowning in potions instead of farming potsherds for them!)
#burgeoningflame
#burgeoningflame
October 7, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The glee at PotD being the last milestone for this was great. More people should do deep dungeon. It’s very fun! Also you are INUNDATED with QoL for it these days (case in point: drowning in potions instead of farming potsherds for them!)
#burgeoningflame
#burgeoningflame
Oh baby. When the ground is made out of 75% potsherds, you know you're in Seven Cities.
October 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Oh baby. When the ground is made out of 75% potsherds, you know you're in Seven Cities.
Really Steve? Page 3?
(Steven Erickson used both these words liberally in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Now he's just poking fun at himself/his audience a bit I think.)
#Malazan
(Steven Erickson used both these words liberally in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Now he's just poking fun at himself/his audience a bit I think.)
#Malazan
October 6, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Really Steve? Page 3?
(Steven Erickson used both these words liberally in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Now he's just poking fun at himself/his audience a bit I think.)
#Malazan
(Steven Erickson used both these words liberally in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Now he's just poking fun at himself/his audience a bit I think.)
#Malazan
There. Asteria done w Aloalo (again) (I gotta spend all these potsherds on something) (so many)
October 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
There. Asteria done w Aloalo (again) (I gotta spend all these potsherds on something) (so many)
#ICYMI Archaeologists have long debated how pottery from Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in what is now the Southeast U.S. wound up in Tampa Bay, FL.
The answer: a secretive guild of migrant pottery artisans: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
The answer: a secretive guild of migrant pottery artisans: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
October 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
#ICYMI Archaeologists have long debated how pottery from Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in what is now the Southeast U.S. wound up in Tampa Bay, FL.
The answer: a secretive guild of migrant pottery artisans: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
The answer: a secretive guild of migrant pottery artisans: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
The Roman province of Hispania Baetica (modern southern Spain) was a major centre of olive oil production.
Analysis of over 1000 potsherds from oil amphorae shed light on how olive oil shaped the Roman economy.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Analysis of over 1000 potsherds from oil amphorae shed light on how olive oil shaped the Roman economy.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
September 29, 2026 at 7:15 AM
The Roman province of Hispania Baetica (modern southern Spain) was a major centre of olive oil production.
Analysis of over 1000 potsherds from oil amphorae shed light on how olive oil shaped the Roman economy.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Analysis of over 1000 potsherds from oil amphorae shed light on how olive oil shaped the Roman economy.
🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Archaeologists have long debated how pottery from Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in what is now the Southeast U.S. wound up in Tampa Bay, FL. The answer: a secretive guild of migrant pottery artisans.
Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
September 22, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Archaeologists have long debated how pottery from Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in what is now the Southeast U.S. wound up in Tampa Bay, FL. The answer: a secretive guild of migrant pottery artisans.
Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...
Study: doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
what the fuck do i do with all of these 🧍
September 20, 2026 at 10:21 PM
what the fuck do i do with all of these 🧍
Trying to be a WNBA fan in Canada without like, 12 streaming services, 3 VPNs and a criminal record feels like being an archeologist, dusting off clips on social media like potsherds you hope to assemble and see if it held wine or someone's piss
September 18, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Trying to be a WNBA fan in Canada without like, 12 streaming services, 3 VPNs and a criminal record feels like being an archeologist, dusting off clips on social media like potsherds you hope to assemble and see if it held wine or someone's piss