I'm just about ready to ditch Facebook, for reasons I'll get to in a bit. But I'll actually miss some of the silly interactions with actual (endearingly silly) people. As opposed to interactions with Slop AI content generated by uninteresting people.
One such discussion had a fellow claiming, and I guess he was serious, that carvings in a local brewery cave were perhaps ancient in origin. Aztec maybe, but I bet I could have talked him, her, or it, into Roman. The entity used as its argument "Hey, you were not around then, so all you have is what people have told you!". Nonsense, but refreshing. Even charming.
So I feel very confident in identifying this pottery shard as Samian. It popped up when I turned over our community garden patch. Somehow the Romans MUST have crossed the Atlantic, lashed the slaves enough to row a galley all the way up the Mississippi and the Chippewa Rivers, took a turn up Duncan Creek, then had a picnic before presumably expiring from exhaustion and implausibility.
Hey, you were not around back then. So you can't prove I'm wrong!
For my sane archaeology friends I must confess, the illusion only works when you look at this side of it.
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