In the afternoons, the various groups take turns fulfilling tasks. Every few days we help with Pottery Registration.
A small percentage of the shards we find are saved and taken back to the hotel. These are usually diagnostic pieces that help us identify general dates (within a few centuries since these are just broken pottery fragments that aren't too specific).
We write, ideally in small, neat handwriting, the Shikhin license number, the area and locus (in archaeological terms, a small, well-defined area of excavation) where it was found, etc.
We add "mend" if we accidentally broke the shard while excavating and it can be pieced back together.
And then they all end up in the back of a warehouse next to the ark of the covenant.
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