Rare field course find
UF students unearth centuries-year-old pot at Florida Spanish mission site.
Light scorch marks on the exterior may have formed if the pot was placed near a fire to heat up food. [Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace]
Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to rest in the palm of their hand. You can imagine their fingers pressing a tight crease around the pot’s simple rim and smoothing its dull grey surface, leaving it […]
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