Showerthought: spent 4 months trying to date a dig site in Turkey from pottery alone before realizing the answer was in the dirt itself | Archaeology Discoveries

Joseph Lewis · 2026-09-17T05:05:02.724287+00:00

We kept finding late Roman red slip ware, so we assumed the whole level was 4th century, but the micromorphology samples told a completely different story. Has anyone else had a site where the pottery and the stratigraphy just flat out disagreed with each other?

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Showerthought: spent 4 months trying to date a dig site in Turkey from pottery alone before realizing the answer was in the dirt itself | Archaeology Discoveries - The Design Community Hub