University of Florida students have unearthed a nearly 400-year-old clay pot at the site of a 17th-century Spanish mission in Gainesville, and remarkably, it survived completely intact. The pot was likely made by a member of the Indigenous Potano Timucua tribe while the mission was still active, and its discovery is considered highly unusual since buried pottery this old is almost always found broken or in pieces by the time archaeologists reach it.

El descubrimiento revela una pieza ajena a los residuos habituales y da claves sobre migraciones forzadas y el cruce de culturas

Archaeologists in Florida have uncovered a rare, fully intact 400-year-old clay pot believed to have been crafted by the Potano Indigenous community. The remarkable discovery at…