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This is really fascinating. Seeing the grave of human remains is one thing, but standing out in the photos is this fragment of pottery (likely a jug or a pitche
by jrsdav 5y ago
This is really fascinating. Seeing the grave of human remains is one thing, but standing out in the photos is this fragment of pottery (likely a jug or a pitcher), where you can see the throwing rings of the person who crafted it, along with marks where they smoothed out the handle it was after attached.
I feel pretty desensitized to skeletal remains (especially apropos in the month of October, Halloween and all), but for some reason seeing that vessel with its clear characteristics of being wrought with hands like mine, really brings home the humanity of this situation. It has me imagining hundreds of possible stories explaining what happened here and how these people might have lived.
- ridgeguy 5y agoI'm with you. In the Israel Museum, there are ceramic pots from ~ 5K - 7K years ago with the makers' fingerprints easily visible. I couldn't help wondering who they were, how they lived their lives, etc.
- mattlondon 5y agoFor me the fact that this guy's head was buried in the grave of a 5 year old child (that is not chance - someone did that deliberately) says a lot about humanity. Someone took his head and put it with what I am assuming is his kid. Daddy and his child together at the end. As I sit here watching my 2 year old play, I find this story quite touching in that regard.