The problem is that unless you have experience digging such artifacts out of the ground and an extensive familiarity with the provenanced material others have d

The problem is that unless you have experience digging such artifacts out of the ground and an extensive familiarity with the provenanced material others have dug out of the ground, such impressions aren't worth much. In the context of looking at listings on Etsy and eBay to learn about looting of material culture, there's plenty of stuff I've thought was fake before an archeologist set me straight with dozens of links to similar material in museums. Likewise, there's plenty of stuff I thought was real that turned out to be an obvious fake to people who know better.