shears

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They anticipate that in the future, AI will facilitate the matching of these sherds based on their shapes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Sometime around the 15th century, Paquimé’s residents scattered, leaving behind the ruins, seashells that they hoarded by the millions and sherds of broken pottery.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

But there was little direct evidence to back that up that idea, aside from a few wagon burials and pottery sherds.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2021

Among the period material you might expect to find digging in Annapolis were pre-historic Native American pottery sherds likely of the Woodland period stretching from 1,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2019

Two small sherds of North Devon gravel-tempered ware were found there in a predominantly mid-18th-century deposit.

From North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century by Watkins, C. Malcolm