Here's my collection of pottery shards. I found all these in one day. I eventually stopped picking these up. The one by the quarter has paint on it.
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A older man said they actually left their pots in the woods around my area. When the creek floods it would wash them into the creeks and break into pieces. He said that is why there are so many pieces in the creeks. I guess the pots were hard to carry to the next site so they would just leave them.
Sometimes too.. At seasonal village sites... Pots were made on arrival and discarded when vacating the site .. and as necessary while there..often in "trash pits" or middens.... Season after season..for decades.
They didn't pack them out..just made more when they got back